A Pluralistic Universe

by William James

Book Overview

In his famous lectures at Oxford University in 1908 and 1909, William James made a sustained and eloquent case against absolute idealism and intellectualism in philosophy. Ever since Socrates and Plato, the philosophy of the absolute had held sway--the emphasis on essence at the expense of concrete appearance, the insistence on a coherent universe, abstract, timeless, finished, enclosed in its totality. James's own thinking led him to renounce monistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803275919
• ISBN13: 9780803275911
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 405 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.9"