William James's Hidden Religious Imagination

William James's Hidden Religious Imagination
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 273
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781134088065
ISBN-13 : 113408806X
Rating : 4/5 (06X Downloads)

Book Synopsis William James's Hidden Religious Imagination by : Jeremy Carrette

Download or read book William James's Hidden Religious Imagination written by Jeremy Carrette and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a radical new reading of William James’s work on the idea of ‘religion.’ Moving beyond previous psychological and philosophical interpretations, it uncovers a dynamic, imaginative, and critical use of the category of religion. This work argues that we can only fully understand James’s work on religion by returning to the ground of his metaphysics of relations and by incorporating literary and historical themes. Author Jeremy Carette develops original perspectives on the influence of James’s father and Calvinism, on the place of the body and sex in James, on the significance of George Eliot’s novels, and Herbert Spencer’s ‘unknown,’ revealing a social and political discourse of civil religion and republicanism and a poetic imagination at the heart of James understanding of religion. These diverse themes are brought together through a post-structural sensitivity and a recovery of the importance of the French philosopher Charles Renouvier to James’s work. This study pushes new boundaries in Jamesian scholarship by reading James with pluralism and from the French tradition. It will be a benchmark text in the reshaping of James and the nineteenth-century foundations of the modern study of ‘religion.’


William James's Hidden Religious Imagination Related Books

William James's Hidden Religious Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Jeremy Carrette
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-29 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book offers a radical new reading of William James’s work on the idea of ‘religion.’ Moving beyond previous psychological and philosophical interpret
William James's Hidden Religious Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Jeremy Carrette
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-29 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book offers a radical new reading of William James’s work on the idea of ‘religion.’ Moving beyond previous psychological and philosophical interpret
Young William James Thinking
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Paul J. Croce
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: JHU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Ultimately, Young William James Thinking reveals how James provided a humane vision well suited to our pluralist age.
William James on Democratic Individuality
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Stephen S. Bush
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

William James (1842–1910) argued for a philosophy of democracy and pluralism that advocates individual and collective responsibility for our social arrangemen
Religion, Theory, Critique
Language: en
Pages: 558
Authors: Richard King
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-18 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Religion, Theory, Critique is an essential tool for learning about theory and method in the study of religion. Leading experts engage with contemporary and clas