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Contents Preface Part I: Growing up Zigzag Prologue 1. Art Is My Vocation 2. Growing Up Zigzag 3. Newport: The James Family 4. The Father 5. Newport, Continued 6. Harvard in 1861 7. Science: Civil War 8. Comparative Anatomy: Medical School 9. The Gulls at the Mouth of the Amazon 10. Tea-Squalls and a Life According to Nature 11. Germany: We Must Be Our Own Providence 12. Germany; A Dead Drifting Life 13. Minnie Temple 14. William James MD 15. Treading Water 16. The End of Youth Part II: The Action of Consciousness 17. Hitting Bottom 18. The Physiology Option 19. The Metaphysical Club: Chauncy Wright 20. Charles S. Peirce 21. Cambridge and Harvard, 1872 22. Teaching 23. Europe Again: Spring 1874 24. Emerson, Mill, and Blood 25. From Physiology to Physiological Psychology: Fall '74 to December '75 26. Love Story: Days of Rapture and Heartbreak 27. The Trouble with Herbert Spencer 28. The Action of Consciousness Part III: The Principles of Psychology 29. Spaces 30. The Heart Wants its Chance 31. The Feeling of Effort 32. Hegel in Cambridge 33. Death of a Mother 34. Goodbye My Sacred Old Father 35. The Wonderful Stream of Our Consciousness 36. William James in 1883 37. What Is an Emotion? 38. The Literary Remains of Henry James Sr 39. The Death of Herman 40. Mrs. Piper 41. My Only Satisfying Companion 42. Hypnotism. Chocorua. 1886 43. Instinct and Will. Jan 87 to Apr 88 44. Santayana 45. The Psychology of Belief 46. Reunion with Alice; The Hidden Self Part IV: The Varieties of Religious Experience 47. Reception of the Principles of Psychology, the Moral Philosopher 48. Alice's Tumor; Briefer Course: James the Teacher 49. The Death of Alice James 50. European Sabbatical Interlude 51. Abnormal Psychology; Sept '93-June '94 52. Talks to Teachers 53. Abnormal Psychology 2 54. Sarah Whitman, Rosina Emmet, Pauline Goldmark 55. Is Life Worth Living? 56. The Gospel of Relaxation 57. The Right to Believe 58. High Tide: 1897-May 1898 59. Walpurgisnacht 60. California 61. Blindness: The Phillipine War 62. Royce: Mt. Marcy Again 63. Religion Is Real 64. The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness 65. The Sick Soul: Slouching toward Edinburgh 66. The Twice-Born 67. Voluntary Poverty 68. The Mystical center Part V: The Philosopher 69. James at 60: New Directions: Bergson 70. Bergson 71. The PhD Octopus, Dewey's New School 72. Emerson 73. Harvard in 1903 and "The True Harvard." 74. A Life of Interruptions 75. The Many and the One 76. The Modern Moment: Radical Empiricism 77. Schiller: Bradley 78. Royce: Pragmatic Stirrings 79. William and Henry 80. California Dreaming 81. Earthquake 82. A General Theory of Human Action 83. Pragmatism 84. The Energies of Men 85. The Harvard Elective System Applied to the Universe 86. The True Race of Prophets 87. A Pluralistic Universe 88. Psychical Researches Once More 89. The Meaning of Truth 90. Ever Not Quite Epilogue Illustrations and Maps Chronology Genealogies Principal Sources Chief unpublished Manuscript sources Abbreviations of the Works of William James Short Titles of frequently cited works Notes Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
James, William, 1842-1910.
Philosophers -- United States -- Biography.