Correspondence (1882–1910)

Correspondence (1882–1910)
Author: William James
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2020-04-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110524678

James and Stumpf first met in Prague in 1882. James soon started corresponding with a “colleague with whose persons and whose ideas alike I feel so warm a sympathy.” With this, a lifelong epistolary friendship began. For 28 years until James’s death in 1910, Stumpf became James’s most important European correspondent. Besides psychological themes of great importance, such as the perception of space and of sound, the letters include commentary upon Stumpf’s (Tonpsychologie) and James’s main books (The Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience), and many other works. The two friends also exchange views concerning other scholars, religious faith and metaphysical topics. The different perspectives of the American and the German (European) way of living, philosophizing and doing science are frequently under discussion. The letters also touch upon personal questions of historical interest. The book offers a critical edition and the English translation of hitherto unpublished primary sources. Historians of psychology and historians of philosophy will welcome the volume as a useful tool for their understanding of some crucial developments of the time. Scholars in the history of pragmatism and of phenomenology will also be interested in the volume.

Correspondence (1882–1910)

Correspondence (1882–1910)
Author: William James
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2020-04-20
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3110525534

James and Stumpf first met in Prague in 1882. James soon started corresponding with a “colleague with whose persons and whose ideas alike I feel so warm a sympathy.” With this, a lifelong epistolary friendship began. For 28 years until James’s death in 1910, Stumpf became James’s most important European correspondent. Besides psychological themes of great importance, such as the perception of space and of sound, the letters include commentary upon Stumpf’s (Tonpsychologie) and James’s main books (The Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience), and many other works. The two friends also exchange views concerning other scholars, religious faith and metaphysical topics. The different perspectives of the American and the German (European) way of living, philosophizing and doing science are frequently under discussion. The letters also touch upon personal questions of historical interest. The book offers a critical edition and the English translation of hitherto unpublished primary sources. Historians of psychology and historians of philosophy will welcome the volume as a useful tool for their understanding of some crucial developments of the time. Scholars in the history of pragmatism and of phenomenology will also be interested in the volume.

Correspondence (1882-1910)

Correspondence (1882-1910)
Author: William James
Publisher: de Gruyter
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-01-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9783110776751

This edition of the letters between William James and Carl Stumpf encompasses 23 unpublished letters of the German Philosopher Carl Stumpf to William James, and James' 34 preserved letters to Stumpf. The volume also includes an extensive introduct

Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians

Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians
Author: Jen Harrison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2016-05-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317104641

What are we to make of the Victorians’ fascination with collecting? What effect did their encounters with the curious, exotic and downright odd have on Victorian writers and their works? The essays in this collection take up these questions by examining the phenomenon of bric-à-brac in Victorian literature. The contributors to Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities explore sites of unusual concurrence (including museums, the home, art galleries, private collections) and the way in which bric-à-brac brought the alien into everyday settings, the past into the present and the wild into the domestic. Focusing on the representation of material culture in Victorian literature, the essays in this volume seek out miscellaneous and incongruous objects that take readers beyond the commonplace paradigms associated with commodity culture. Individual chapters analyse the work of writers as different as Edward Lear and John Henry Newman, Robert Browning and George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Lewis Carroll. In so doing they shed light on a dizzying array of topics and objects that include class and capitalism, the occult and the sacraments, Darwinism and dandyism, umbrellas, textiles, the Philosopher’s Stone and even the household nail.

The Life of George Ranken Askwith, 1861–1942

The Life of George Ranken Askwith, 1861–1942
Author: Alison Heath
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317320042

George Ranken Askwith was a key figure in the development of British industrial relations. This new biography is based on a wide range of archival sources including government records, newspaper articles, Askwith’s personal correspondence and his wife’s private diaries.