"Cotkin provides a gracefully written and consistently intelligent defense of James and pragmatism that deserves a wide audience among intellectual historians a
Nineteenth-century psychologist and pragmatist philosopher William James is rarely considered a political theorist. Renowned as the author of The Principles of
At the turn of the twentieth century, no other public intellectual was as celebrated in America as the influential philosopher and psychologist William James. S
James believed that philosophy was meant to articulate, and help answer, a single existential question, one which lent itself to the title of one of his most fa