{"product_id":"william-james-9781478005155","title":"William James","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in French in 1997 and appearing here in English for the first time, David Lapoujade's \u003ci\u003eWilliam James: Empiricism and Pragmatism\u003c\/i\u003e is both an accessible and rigorous introduction to and a pioneering rereading of James's thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“David Lapoujade's book, at last translated, was an event in France, and so it will be for his American readers, who will rediscover what they thought they knew. Lapoujade does not write about William James but rather embraces the movement of James's thought, performing it as a musician performs a score, making it alive and audible for its own sake and enabling his readers to go back and read James as if for the first time.” -- Isabelle Stengers, author of * In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism *\u003cbr\u003e“In this crisp, well-argued book, David Lapoujade rescues the whole idea of pragmatism from the dismissive and misguided views that it is an ‘American’ philosophy by recasting its fundamental questions along new lines. He advances a vision of pragmatism that is based in trust in the world of things in the making, in effect reopening pragmatist thought from a fresh angle.” -- John Rajchman, author of * The Deleuze Connections *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Originally published in French in 1997 and finally translated into English, David Lapoujade's \u003ci\u003eWilliam James\u003c\/i\u003e is varnished by the specter of Deleuzean transcendental empiricism.... \u003ci\u003eWilliam James\u003c\/i\u003e is as much an archeological disinterring of Deleuze by way of James as it is a recovery of James’s pragmatism from Richard Rorty’s neo-pragmatism....”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Ekin Erkan * Continental Thought \u0026amp; Theory *\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eWilliam James\u003c\/i\u003e] is well written, with a verve that will repay the attentive reader. Recommended.” -- J. A. Fischel * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“For those attentive to connection, who seek to multiply relations, [\u003ci\u003eWilliam James\u003c\/i\u003e] will prove instructive through its experimentation with the prospective possibilities of a philosopher’s thought. As Lapoujade performatively reminds us, every act of interpretation is also an act of creation.” -- Bonnie Sheehey * American Literary History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on References  vii\u003cbr\u003e Preface \/ Thomas Lamarre  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Radical Empiricism  9\u003cbr\u003e 2. Truth and Knowledge  27\u003cbr\u003e 3. Faith and Pragmatic Community  51\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  73\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Diversity as Method \/ Thomas Lamarre  77\u003cbr\u003e Notes  119\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  137\u003cbr\u003e Index  143","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408977011031,"sku":"9781478005155","price":63.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478005155.jpg?v=1730504936","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/william-james-9781478005155","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}