Croce, Paul Jerome (Author)
During a period of vocational indecision and deep depression, young William James embarked on a circuitous journey, trying out natural history field work, completing medical school, and studying ancient cultures before teaching physiological psychology on his way to becoming a philosopher. A century after his death, Young William James Thinking examines the private thoughts James detailed in his personal correspondence, archival notes, and his first publications to create a compelling portrait of his growth as both man and thinker.By going to the sources, Paul J. Croce’s cultural biography challenges the conventional contrast commentators have drawn between James’s youthful troubles and his mature achievements. Inverting James’s reputation for inconsistency, Croce shows how he integrated his interests and his struggles into sophisticated thought. His ambivalence became the motivating core of his philosophizing, the heart of his enduring legacy. Readers can follow James in science classes and in personal "speculations," studying medicine and exploring both mainstream and sectarian practices, in museums reflecting on the fate of humanity since ancient times, in love and with heart broken, and in periodic crises of confidence that sometimes even spurred thoughts of suicide. A case study in coming of age, this book follows the famous American philosopher's vocational work and avocational interests, his education and his frustrations—young James between childhood and fame. Anecdotes placed in the contexts of his choices shed new light on the core commitments within his enormous contributions to psychology, philosophy, and religious studies. James’s hard-won insights, starting with his mediation of science and religion, led to his appreciation of body and mind in relation. Ultimately, Young William James Thinking reveals how James provided a humane vision well suited to our pluralist age.
...MoreReview Saulo de Freitas Araujo (2018) Review of "Young William James Thinking". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 304-305).
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Wolf, Stewart;
(1993)
Brain, Mind, and Medicine: Charles Richet and the Origins of Physiological Psychology
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Cooper, W.E.;
(1990)
William James's theory of mind
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Kamerbeek, Christopher;
(2010)
The Ghost and the Corpse: Figuring the Mind/Brain Complex at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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Viney, Wayne;
(1989)
The cyclops and the twelve-eyed toad: William James and the unity-disunity problem in psychology
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McNulty, T. Michael;
(1982)
James, Mach, and the problem of other minds
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Willemien Otten;
(2020)
Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking: From Eriugena to Emerson
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Gale, Richard M.;
(1999)
The Divided Self of William James
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Croce, Paul;
(2009)
Nature's Beloved Incarnations: Inquiry, Conviction, and William James
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Weller, Dylan;
(2010)
William James, Pluralism, and the Science of Religious Experience
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Grossman, Joan Delaney;
(2003)
Philosophers, Decadents, and Mystics: James's Russian Readers in the 1890's
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Horst Gundlach;
(2018)
William James and the Heidelberg Fiasco
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Taylor, Charles;
(2002)
Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited
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Kosits, Russell D.;
(2004)
Of Faculties, Fallacies, and Freedom: Dilemma and Irony in the Secularization of American Psychology
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Croce, Paul Jerome;
(2007)
Freeman Dyson and Humility Theology: Revised Editions of Some Old Ways of Thinking
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Walter Melo;
Pedro Henrique Costa de Resende;
(2020)
The Impact of James’s Varieties of Religious Experience on Jung’s Work
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Grossman, Joan Delaney;
Rischin, Ruth;
(2003)
William James in Russian Culture
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Etkind, Alexander;
(2003)
James and Konovalov: The Varieties of Religious Experience and Russian Theology between Revolutions
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Knapp, Krister Dylan;
(2003)
To the Summerland: William James, Psychical Research and Modernity
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Alexander Klein;
(2015)
Science, Religion, and “The Will to Believe”
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Michael Davis;
(2006)
George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country
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