William James, MD: philosopher, psychologist, physician
"William James is known as a nineteenth-century philosopher, psychologist, and psychical researcher. Less well-known are the medical fixations that united his multiple identities and drove his ambition to change the way American society conceived of itself in body, mind, and soul. William James...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "William James is known as a nineteenth-century philosopher, psychologist, and psychical researcher. Less well-known are the medical fixations that united his multiple identities and drove his ambition to change the way American society conceived of itself in body, mind, and soul. William James, M.D. offers an account of the development and cultural significance of James's ideas and works, and establishes, for the first time, the relevance of medical themes to his major lines of thought. James lived at a time when old assumptions about faith and the moral and religious possibilities for human worth and redemption were increasingly displaced by a concern with the medically "normal" and the perfectibility of the body. Woven into treatises warning of the degeneration of humanity, these ideas comprised the origins of the eugenics movement and were manifest in a growing social stigma attached to illness and invalidism, a disturbing intellectual current in which James felt personally implicated. Most chronicles of James's life have portrayed a distressed young man, a psychological or spiritual crisis, followed by the emergence of a mature thinker who threw off his pallor of mental sickness for good. In contrast, Emma Sutton draws on his personal correspondence, unpublished notebooks, and diaries to show that James considered himself a genuine invalid to the end of his days. Sutton makes the compelling case that his philosophizing was not an abstract occupation but an impassioned response to his own life experiences and challenges. To ignore the medical James is to misread James altogether. Sales points: First book to map William James's preoccupation with medical ideas, concerns, and values across the disciplinary breadth of his work Reveals how themes of invalidism, health, and healing underpinned the genesis of many of James's major philosophical, psychological, and political ideas Draws on the approximately 9,400 items of Jamesian correspondence, together with his private notes and reading lists"-- |
| Beschreibung: | 251 Seiten 10 Illustrationen und Porträts 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780226828985 9780226828961 |
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| 520 | 3 | |a Woven into treatises warning of the degeneration of humanity, these ideas comprised the origins of the eugenics movement and were manifest in a growing social stigma attached to illness and invalidism, a disturbing intellectual current in which James felt personally implicated. Most chronicles of James's life have portrayed a distressed young man, a psychological or spiritual crisis, followed by the emergence of a mature thinker who threw off his pallor of mental sickness for good. In contrast, Emma Sutton draws on his personal correspondence, unpublished notebooks, and diaries to show that James considered himself a genuine invalid to the end of his days. Sutton makes the compelling case that his philosophizing was not an abstract occupation but an impassioned response to his own life experiences and challenges. To ignore the medical James is to misread James altogether. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a Sales points: First book to map William James's preoccupation with medical ideas, concerns, and values across the disciplinary breadth of his work Reveals how themes of invalidism, health, and healing underpinned the genesis of many of James's major philosophical, psychological, and political ideas Draws on the approximately 9,400 items of Jamesian correspondence, together with his private notes and reading lists"-- | |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS List of Figures ix INTRODUCTION: THE PUBLIC PHYSICIAN Diagnosing James 1 A Philosophy of Everyday Life $ 1: MISERY AND METAPHYSICS 13 A Dark Business 13 The Problem of Evil 17 Poisoned with Utilitarian Venom 23 The Ethics of Self-Destruction 27 Conscious Automata 34 2: HEALTH AND HYGIENE 45 The Laws of Health 45 The Alcohol Question 51 Habit 56 Talks to Teachers 62 Emotions and the Body 69 3: RELIGION AND REGENERATION The Science of Organic Life 79 The Wonder-Mongers S4 The Hidden Self 93 A Wild World 99 79 1
4: ENERGY AND ENDURANCE 107 Mortal Disease, Morality, and God 107 The Divided Self 114 Superhuman Life 121 The Energies of Men 126 5: POLITICS AND PATHOLOGY 135 The Political James 135 Defending the Degenerate 138 Validating the Invalid 146 The Voice of the Sick 153 Therapeutic Campaigns 157 CONCLUSION: AFTERLIFE 167 Fit to Live 167 Moral Medicine 170 Acknowledgments 175 Notes 179 Archival Sources 219 Bibliography 221 Index 239
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CONTENTS List of Figures ix INTRODUCTION: THE PUBLIC PHYSICIAN Diagnosing James 1 A Philosophy of Everyday Life $ 1: MISERY AND METAPHYSICS 13 A Dark Business 13 The Problem of Evil 17 Poisoned with Utilitarian Venom 23 The Ethics of Self-Destruction 27 Conscious Automata 34 2: HEALTH AND HYGIENE 45 The Laws of Health 45 The Alcohol Question 51 Habit 56 Talks to Teachers 62 Emotions and the Body 69 3: RELIGION AND REGENERATION The Science of Organic Life 79 The Wonder-Mongers S4 The Hidden Self 93 A Wild World 99 79 1
4: ENERGY AND ENDURANCE 107 Mortal Disease, Morality, and God 107 The Divided Self 114 Superhuman Life 121 The Energies of Men 126 5: POLITICS AND PATHOLOGY 135 The Political James 135 Defending the Degenerate 138 Validating the Invalid 146 The Voice of the Sick 153 Therapeutic Campaigns 157 CONCLUSION: AFTERLIFE 167 Fit to Live 167 Moral Medicine 170 Acknowledgments 175 Notes 179 Archival Sources 219 Bibliography 221 Index 239 |
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