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Publisher: Mariner Books; Reprint edition (September 14, 2007)
Publication Date: November 1, 2017
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Robert Richardson characterizes his splendid biography of William James (1842 -- 1910) as seeking "to understand his life through his work, not the other way around." Richardson succeeds admirably in giving the reader the thought of William James in the many fields to which he made seminal contributions: psychology, religious studies, philosophy, pedagogy, and literature. He also offers an inspiring picture of James the man. Indeed, as Richardson shows, James's life is closely intertwined with his thought. Richardson taught for many years at the University of North Carolina and is currently an independent scholar. He has written biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau together with this biography of William James.Richardson's book is written in five broad parts which subsume ninety short and readable individual sections. The first two parts of the book cover James's "Zigzag" childhood as his family, under his father, the redoubtable Henry James, Sr. crossed the Atlantic Ocean back and forth many times in search of education. James's relationship with his astonishing family, which Richardson calls the "James nation" -- his father and mother, novelist brother Henry, sister Annie, and brothers Garth and Wilkie form one of the motifs of this book.As a young man WilliamJames was prone to ill-health, depression, and feeling of purposelessness. More than once, he considered suicide. These traits remained with him throughout life as James fought to control them and turn them to his advantage through effort, activity and will. Famously, James read the French philosopher Renouvier in 1870 which inspired him to conclude that "Our first act of freedom, if we are free, ought in all inward propriety to be to affirm that we are free." James subsequent courtship of and marriage to Alice Gibbens and his attainment of a teaching position at Harvard further committed him to a life of purposeful activity and to a confidence in himself.The remaining three parts of Richardson's book center, respectively, upon James's great two-volume "Principles of Psychology" of 1890, his "Varieties of Religious Experience" of 1902, and, late in life, his work as a philosopher in his development of pragmatism, radical empiricism and pluralism. Richardson admirably ties James's work together to show how the philosophy arose from James's early interest in physiology and anatomy. James did revolutionary work in developing the physical basis of mental states and feelings. His interest in a full exploration of experience, together with his reading of the works of his father, led him as well to a feeling for religion and to human activity on the vision that what was noblest in man was mirrored in the universe. Richardson quotes the following passage from James as the epigraph to his book:"If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight -- as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem."James large works and famous lecture series, such as the "Varieties", "Pragmatism" and "A Pluralistic Universe" are given close attention as are many of James's essays and lesser-known works. I enjoyed reading about James's first book in which he summarized his father's religious beliefs in the course of an introductory essay of over 100 pages.Richardson aptly relates James to American intellectual currents, exemplified by Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Holmes, Royce, Charles Peirce, and many others. He portrays James's thought as forward-looking, activist, pluralist, and based upon an openness to all forms of human experience -- including, notoriously, spiritualism. Richardson describes James as a founder of modernism in his teaching on the flow of consciousness. He is certainly correct about this, but it is also true that James's thought as it developed was highly metaphysical and speculative, much more so than in a great deal of contemporary philosophical thought. Richardson makes the apt point that in his emphasis of constant change and flow, James followed in the path of Heraclitus, the obscure but fascinating pre-Socratic philosopher. At many points in his study, Richardson suggests that James's primary achievement was in providing an answer to Plato and to the world of fixity, completeness, and eternal nonphysical ideas.In 1910, shortly before his death, James wrote an essay called "A Pluralistic Mystic" about his long-time friend Benjamin Paul Blood, an eccentric philosopher, poet and mystic from upstate New York who was among the first to experiment with mind-altering drugs. Blood had written that reality and experience could never be captured by any formula:[t]he slow round of the engraver's lathe gains but the breadth of a hair, but the difference is distributed back over the whole curve, never an instant true -- ever not quite."In his essay on Blood, James made the phrase "ever not quite" his own. In summing up his life work in the essay, James joined cause with his subject, Blood, and concluded in language inspiring, fiery, and extravagant: "Let my last word, then, speaking in the name of intellectual philsophy, be his work: -- There is no conclusion. What has been concluded, that we might conclude in regard to it? There are no fortunes to be told, and there is no advice to be given. -- Farewell!"Richardson has written an inspiring and learned book about a great American thinker and about the promise of leading a life of purposeful activity. Those moved to read or to reread William James may wish to pursue the two large collections of his most famous writings available from the Library of America.Robin Friedman
Some potential readers may be put off by the subtitle of this book, “In the Maelstrom of American Modernism.†I suspect James himself might find it pretentious. But the subtitle is the only weakness of this beautifully written biography. Robert Richardson captures the mind and heart of William James, the man who more than anyone opened the door to what is called “pragmatism.†You may or may not agree with James’s philosophical perspective but this book will give you a portrait of an unforgettable human being.How much background in philosophy does a reader need for this book? A little but not much. Richardson lays out as clearly as anyone can the positions that James accepts or does not accept. What strikes the reader constantly in the book is James’s openness to “experience,†including experiences many educated people today would consider illusions or emotional assertions taken as facts. James had (and has) many good critics. The problem of conceptualizing our experience which, as James notes, leads people from mystical experiences to culture-dominated dogmatic religions, also applies to one’s personal judgment of truth. A sudden rush of positive insight or total oneness may not be as self-evidently true as we might like. Are such experiences completely self-verifying? Many say James is far too lenient in what he allows as “evidence.†But what I have always admired about William James, and what comes out clearly throughout his life and in this book, is his ability to push us past our preset ideas and our human arrogance to where we crack open our concepts to at least try to be open to new or unorthodox experiences. In the metaphor James uses more than once, we may well be like our pet dog who wanders around a library without the vaguest idea of the larger world it is in and only the most minimal and most limited idea of the world outside its consciousness. We may be only pecking away at the margins of what the universe holds and human consciousness could well be analogous to the dog’s when it comes to what is out there. Still, our best developed and best functioning concepts are all we have in practice. As James says in so many ways, these are stepping stones for our understanding of ourselves and the universe. We can stand on them – for a while – as long as they are productive and bear themselves out in practice.This is a mind-opening and heartfelt tribute to James’s life. His relationship to his famous brother Henry is laid out in detail as well as his marriage to Alice Gibbens. The English is clear and well-organized with excellent chapter divisions. The transitions are smooth and this is especially important when mixing the life and the ideas of an academic figure. I recommend this biography in the strongest terms as one of the finest examples around of engaging the reader in the life story of an original American thinker.
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