A Pluralistic Universe James Levinson Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9780803275911

A Pluralistic Universe James Levinson Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9780803275911

University of Nebraska Press

A Pluralistic UniverseAuthor(s): William James, Henry S. Levinson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9780803275911, 978-0803275911\nSynopsis\nIn his famous lectures at Oxford University in 1908 and 1909, William James made a sustained and eloquent case against absolute idealism and intellectualism in philosophy. Ever since Socrates and Plato, the philosophy of the absolute had heldswaythe emphasis on essence at the expense of concrete appearance, the insistence on a coherent universe, abstract, timeless, finished, enclosed in its totality. James's own thinking led him to renounce monistic idealism and the intellectualization of all \""truth.\"" Going against the grain of entrenched philosophy, James argues in A Pluralistic Universe that the world is not a uni-verse but a multi-verse. He honors the human experience of manyness and disconnection (and various kinds of unity) in the world of flux and s.

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