Volume 35, Number 6 · April 14, 1988
Amiable Genius
By Stuart Hampshire
William James: Writings 1902–1910
edited by Bruce Kuklick
The Library of America, 1,379 pp., $27.50
William James wrote two masterworks that have permanent places in the history of thought. They have been read and continuously studied all over the world, from their date of publication until the present day: The Principles of Psychology (1890) and The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902). The latter is the first work included in Bruce Kuklick's Library of America volume, along with Pragmatism, A Pluralistic Universe, The Meaning of Truth, Some Problems of Philosophy, and shorter works under the heading 'Essays,' including 'Address on the Philippine Question,' James's protest against American jingoism and expansion.
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