William James

At the core of pragmatism is the idea of an active projection of experience into the future. William James's contribution to pragmatism included an emphasis on emotions in the apprehension of possible futures and related processes. After presenting a summary of Jamesian pragmatism, and especially the significance of emotions in it, the article notes the reception of James's writings in Europe and their influence on European intellectual developments. Max Weber, for instance, studied James closely. He treated James's approach to religion as a negative example. While Emile Durkheim rejected the individualist approach of James, he nevertheless found much of value in James's conceptualization of religious experience, including its emotional underpinnings. Discussion below explores the neglected Jamesian quality of Durkheim's account of religion. It is noted in conclusion that the more recent sociological neglect of James and the failure to appreciate his particular approach in pragmatism, coincided with the rise of Freudian psychology in the early decades of the twentieth century

Conceptualization · Epistemology · Individualism · Pragmatism · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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• The Reception of William James in Continental Europe

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• The unbearable lightness of being? Reconfiguring the moral underpinnings and sources of ontological security

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• Consciousness and society

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• Essays in radical empiricism

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• Pragmatism

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• The Instinct of Workmanship, by Thorstein Veblen

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• Genuine Reality

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• Collected Essays and Reviews

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• The spiritualist foundation of Max Weber's 'Interpretative Sociology

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• William James

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• Emile Durkheim, His Life and Work. A Historical and Critical Study

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• William James’ Theory of Emotions

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• Consciousness and Society

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• Pragmatism and sociology

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• The Division of Labour in Society

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• Beruf, rationality and emotion in Max Weber's sociology

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• The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

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• From Max Weber

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• Emile Durkheim

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• Cooley and Sociological Analysis

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