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Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life

By John Kaag

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
0691216711, 9780691216713
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3316313 bytes)
Pages
224\0
Time added
2022-02-17 21:24:44

Description

From the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William James In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled “Is Life Worth Living?” It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, “James’s entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life”―and that’s why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Healthy Minds is an absorbing introduction to James’s life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living.

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