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Originally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, David Lapoujade's William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to James's thought and a pioneering rereading of it. Examining pragmatism's fundamental questions through a Deleuzian framework, Lapoujade outlines how James's pragmatism and radical empiricism encompass the study of experience and the making of reality, and he reopens the speculative side of pragmatist thought and the role of experience in it. The book includes an extensive afterword by translator Thomas Lamarre, who illustrates how James's interventions are becoming increasingly central to the contemporary debates about materialist ontology, affect, and epistemology that strive to bridge the gaps among science studies, media studies, and religious studies.
List of contents
A Note on References vii
Preface / Thomas Lamarre ix
Introduction 1
1. Radical Empiricism 9
2. Truth and Knowledge 27
3. Faith and Pragmatic Community 51
Conclusion 73
Afterword: Diversity as Method / Thomas Lamarre 77
Notes 119
Bibliography 137
Index 143
About the author
David Lapoujade is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the author of numerous books, including
Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson and
Aberrant Movements: The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.
Thomas Lamarre is Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University and author of
The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media.
Summary
Originally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, David Lapoujade's William James: Empiricism and Pragmatism is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to and a pioneering rereading of James's thought.
