Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life

ISBN: 0691216711

Author: Kaag, John

Condition: New

From the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled Is Life Worth Living? It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, Jamess entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life-and thats why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Healthy Minds is an absorbing introduction to Jamess life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living.