Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 728 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1226 g
Reihe: The Works of William James
Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 728 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1226 g
Reihe: The Works of William James
ISBN: 978-0-674-26708-4
Verlag: Harvard University Press
The more than fifty articles, essays, and reviews in this volume, collected here for the first time, were published by William James over a span of some twenty-five years. The record of a sustained interest in phenomena of a highly controversial nature, they make it amply clear that James's work in psychical research was not an eccentric hobby but a serious and sympathetic concern. James was broad-minded in his approach but tough-minded in his demand that investigations be conducted in rigorous scientific terms. He hoped his study of psychic phenomena would strengthen the philosophy of an open-ended, pluralistic universe that he was formulating during the same period, and he looked forward to the new horizons for human experience that a successful outcome of his research would create.
Robert A. McDermott, in his Introduction, discusses the relation of these essays to James's other work in philosophy, psychology, and religion.
