Table of Contents

Martin Halliwell and Joel D. S. Rasmussen: Introduction: William James and the Transatlantic Conversation
I: James's Intellectual Contexts
1: Jaime Nubiola: The Reception of William James in Continental Europe
2: David A. Hollinger: William James, Ecumenical Protestantism, and the Dynamics of Secularization
3: Richard H. King: Religion, Sociology, and Psychology: William James and the Re-enchantment of the World
4: Barbara Loerzer: William James, the French Tradition, and the Incomplete Transposition of the Spiritual into the Aesthetic
5: Peter Kuryla: Vastations and Prosthetics: Henry James Sr. and the Transatlantic Education of William and Henry James
6: Martin Halliwell: Morbid and Positive Thinking: William James, Psychology, and Illness
7: Leslie Butler: Encountering the Smashing Projectile: William James on John Stuart Mill and the Woman Question
II: The Philosophy of Pluralism
8: David C. Lamberth: A Pluralistic Universe a Century Later: Rationality, Pluralism, and Religion
9: Joel D. S. Rasmussen: William James, A Pluralistic Universe, and the Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry
10: Michael R. Slater: James's Critique of Monistic Idealism in A Pluralistic Universe
11: Sami Pihlström: Jamesian Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God
12: Jeremy Carrette: Growing Up Zigzag: Reassessing the Transatlantic Legacy of William James
Bibliography

About the Author

Edited by Martin Halliwell and Joel D. S. Rasmussen

Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester.

Joel D. S. Rasmussen is University Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought and Fellow of Mansfield College at the University of Oxford.

Reviews

lively and insightful ... This volume, with its twelve laboratories of imaginative inquiry, pushes the boundaries for our understanding of James.
*Paul Croce, Society for U.S. Intellectual History*

[A]ny reader wishing to be better acquainted with him would be well advised to consult this book.
*Kate Kirkpatrick, The Way*