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Zusatztext If the other volumes [in the series] are anywhere near as good as this one, they are a bargain … Reading through the volume with its very high and consistent standards of cogency and clarity made me see the work as a really important—and lively—re-assessment of modernism itself, and a book I can no longer do without. Understanding James, Understanding Modernism is a robust defense of pragmatism, pluralism, and religious experience, and the entire volume is merrily complicit in what Evans calls ‘the defenestration of metaphysics that would become the central philosophical project of the twentieth century.’ Informationen zum Autor David H. Evans is Associate Professor of of English at Dalhousie University, Canada. He is the author of William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition (2008) and co-editor of America and Violence , a special issue of the Canadian Review of American Studies, 38.1 (2008).Explores and illuminates James's profound impact on our understanding of literary modernism. Zusammenfassung Psychologist! philosopher! teacher! writer-William James stood closer than any other thinker to the center of the confluence of intellectual and artistic forces that defined the culture of modernism. The outstanding feature of this volume lies in its intent to investigate James's influence on both American and International Modernism. It provides! on the one hand! a multifaceted introduction to students of history! philosophy! and culture! and on the other! a compendium of some of the most up-to-date thinking on this central figure.James's first book! Principles of Psychology (1890) immediately established James as the leading psychologist of his time! at a moment in history when psychology seemed to offer the promise of finding some definitive answers to eternal philosophical conundra. James's innovations would register a clear effect on much modernist art! most evidently in the stylistic prose experiments of James Joyce! Virginia Woolf! and their imitators. James's tentative skepticism concerning the concept of consciousness as such! and the post-Cartesian ego that was its foundation! also anticipates the questioning of the subject that would be the theme of much modern! and indeed postmodern thought. The contributors to this volume explore James's most essential texts as well as his influence on contemporary writers! artists! and thinkers. The final section is a glossary of James's key terms! with entries written by leading experts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series PrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Unstiffening All Our Theories: William James and the Culture of Modernism David H. Evans! Dalhousie University! Canada Part 1: Conceptualizing James 1 The Character of Consciousness Owen Flanagan and Heather Wallace! Duke University! USA 2 Redeeming the Wild Universe: William James's Will to Believe John J. Stuhr! Emory University! USA 3 The Psychology of Religion: William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience Michael Bacon! Royal Holloway! University of London! UK 4 The Human Contribution: James and Modernity in Pragmatism and The Meaning of Truth Alan Malachowski! Stellenbosch University! South Africa 5 "Ever Not Quite!": William James's A Pluralistic Universe Barry Allen! McMaster University! Canada 6 James's Radical Empiricism James Campbell! University of Toledo! USA Part 2: James and Modernist Culture 7 James and Bergson: Fighting the Beast Intellectualism with Metaphors Rosa Slegers! Babson College! USA 8 William James! Henry James and the Turn Toward Modernism Jill Kress Karn! Villanova University! USA 9 "Never Reject Anything. Nothing Has Been Proved": William James and Gertrude Stein on Ti...
