William James on the Emotions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4457027 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Howard M Feinstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 133 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2708376 |
| OpenAlex | W2319851612 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Promptly after its publication in 1890, William James's Principles of Psychology stirred critical comment about the influence of his personality on the text. book was saturated with personal illustrations which contributed to its lively style and its value as a biographical document. One reviewer, G. Stanley Hall, shrewdly predicted that A book so individual in its style and method will inevitably invite attention more and more to the personality of the author, it is just these elements and idiosyncrasies that will be valuable material for the inductive methods of the future psychology.' In this paper, I focus on one chapter of the Principles, The Emotions, to study the interplay between the author's life history and the formulation of his theory of the emotions.2 study is pursued from two complementary vantage points. Analysis of the chapter increases the biographer's understanding of James at an important point in his career. intellectual historian can examine it as a provocative specimen of the process by which a creative individual formulates an idea which is both a precipitate of elements in his intellectual climate and one of the factors which creates that
Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1988 - 2012 (25) |
| Highly cited | No |