Volume 45, Number 20 · December 17, 1998
William James & the Case of the Epileptic Patient
By Louis Menand
BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THIS ARTICLE:
Genuine Reality: A Life of William James
by Linda Simon
Harcourt Brace, 467 pp., $35.00
William James Remembered
edited by Linda Simon
University of Nebraska Press, 275 pp., $35.00
The Thought and Character of William James
by Ralph Barton Perry, with an introduction by Charlene Haddock Seigfried
Vanderbilt University Press, one-volume edition, 402 pp., $21.95 (paper)
Manhood at Harvard: William James and Others
by Kim Townsend
Norton, 318 pp., $29.95
The Correspondence of William James
edited by Ignas K. Skrupskelis, by Elizabeth M. Berkeley
Volume 4, 1856-1877
The University Press of Virginia, 714 pp., $55.00
Volume 5, 1878-1884
The University Press of Virginia, 677 pp., $60.00
Volume 6, 1885-1889
The University Press of Virginia, 746 pp., $60.00
In 1901, when he was fifty-nine, William James delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh. James was an international academic celebrity. The Principles of Psychology, which appeared in 1890 and which had taken him twelve years to write, was quickly recognized as the leading summation of developments in a field that had been transformed, within James's own lifetime, by the introduction of laboratory methods and by the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin. An abridged edition for students, Psychology: Briefer Course, popularly known as 'Jimmy,' appeared in 1892; by the time of the Gifford Lectures, it had sold nearly fifty thousand copies.
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