Genuine Reality

A Life of William James

Bibliographic Data

ID16307461
AuthorsEugene Taylor (corresponding author), Linda Simon
Year1999
Volume72
Issue1
Pages151
Publication date1999-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe New England Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/366638
OpenAlexW2052303505
LanguageEN
Citations received23

Intellectual rebel, romantic pragmatist, aristocratic pluralist, James was both a towering figure of the nineteenth century and a harbinger of the twentieth. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including 1,500 letters between James and his wife, acclaimed biographer Linda Simon creates an intimate portrait of this multifaceted and contradictory man. Exploring James's irrepressible family, his diverse friends, and the cultural and political forces to which he so energetically responded, Simon weaves the many threads of James's life into a genuine, and vibrant, reality. William James . . . has never seemed so vulnerably human as in Linda Simon's biography. . . . [S]he vivifies James in such a way that his life and thought come freshly alive for the modern reader. David S. Reynolds, New York Book Review Superb. . . . Genuine Reality is recommended reading for all soul-searchers. George Gurley, Chicago Tribune Ms. Simon . . . has provided an ideal pathway for James's striding. . . . [Y]ou become engaged in his struggles as if they were your own. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times [A]n excellent narrative biography at once sensitively told and lucidly written. John Patrick Diggins, Wall Street Journal

Aesthetics · Art · Environmental ethics · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education

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