William James in Russian CultureJoan Delaney Grossman, Ruth Rischin Lexington Books, 2003 - 259 pages Editors Joan Grossman and Ruth Rischin pose to their contributors an intriguing question: What happens when the ideas of a thinker like William James, who--despite his originality--was deeply rooted in American traditions, are refracted through a culture that draws on a heritage profoundly different from his own? Including studies of reception and interpretation of James's major works and analyses of the impact of his own philosophy on certain Russian writers and thinkers, William James in Russian Culture reveals striking parallels among and divergences between the intellectual and the spiritual realms. |
Contents
William James The European Connection | 15 |
Adventures in Time and Space Dostoevsky William James and the Perilous Journey to Conversion | 33 |
What Men Live By Belief and the Individual in Leo Tolstoy and William James | 59 |
The Moral Equivalent of War Violence in the Later Fiction of Leo Tolstoy | 81 |
Philosophers Decadents and Mystics Jamess Russian Readers in the 1890s | 93 |
James and Viacheslav Ivanov at the Threshold of Consciousness | 113 |
William James in the Moscow Psychological Society Pragmatism Pluralism Personalism | 131 |
Lev Shestovs James A Knight of Free Creativity | 159 |
James and Konovalov The Varieties of Religious Experience and Russian Theology between Revolutions | 169 |
Gorky and GodBuilding | 189 |
James and Vocabularies of PostSoviet Russian Spirituality | 211 |
William James in Contexts Plural | 225 |
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About the Contributors | 257 |
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