The Religious Investigations of William James

By Henry Samuel Levinson

328 pp., 6 x 9

  • Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-9709-6
    Published: January 2011
  • E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-1016-0
    Published: August 2016
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    Published: August 2016

Studies in Religion

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In this first detailed examination of <3>Varieties of Religious Experience<1>, Levinson locates James securely in the academic study of religion, demonstrates James's debts to Darwin, and reconstructs the case for the supernatural that James thought so critical to his work. The author discusses the contribution that these religious interests made to James's later work and to the shaping of his theories of pragmatism and radical empiricism.

Originally published 1981.

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