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Article: A new biography of William James reveals a man who never really succeeded in resolving the central tensions of his life and times.(Review)
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- The World and I
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- May 1, 1999
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Lloyd Eby is assistant senior editor of the Currents in Modern Thought section of The World & I.
Book Info:GENUINE REALITY
A Life of William James
Linda Simon
Publisher:New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998 467 pp., $35.00
The life and work of William James were poised in the tension between religious faith and science, between the rationalism and religiosity that still pervaded elite institutions such as Harvard in the nineteenth century, and the empiricism, scientism, and secularism that would become the norm in the twentieth.
William James--elder brother of the equally famed and accomplished novelist Henry ...