Becoming William James /

Becoming William James / / Howard Feinstein.

For William James, work was the problem. Ultimately, going to work was the resolution, and James's quest for meaningful work remains as relevant at the end of the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth. Weaving letters, diaries, drawings, and published texts, Becoming William James provi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Feinstein, Howard,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2000
Year of Publication:2018
Edition:With a New Introduction
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Photographs
  • DRAWINGS
  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • BOOK ONE: GRANDFATHER
  • 1. Tenants Become Landlords
  • BOOK TWO: FATHER
  • 2. A Crime against Childhood
  • 3. Flight from Union
  • 4. A Conflict of Wills
  • 5. Ideology for a Prodigal
  • 6. Words and Work
  • BOOK THREE: SON
  • 7. A Painter's Vocation
  • 8. The Murdered Self
  • 9. Evolution at Harvard
  • 10. Basic Science vs. the Humbug of Medicine
  • 11. Vacation in Brazil
  • 12. The Use and Abuse of Illness
  • 13. An Invalid Physician
  • 14. A Singular Life
  • 15. An Ontological Window
  • 16. Two Brothers at War and a Sister at Home
  • 17. Declining Fortunes
  • 18. A Sort of Fatality
  • 19. Professor James
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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