No Dose for It at the Chemist
Helen Thaventhiran: William James’s Prescriptions, 24 October 2024
Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James
by William James, edited by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle.
Princeton, 387 pp., £25, January 2023,978 0 691 24015 2 Show More
by William James, edited by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle.
Princeton, 387 pp., £25, January 2023,
William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
by Emma K. Sutton.
Chicago, 251 pp., £24, December 2023,978 0 226 82898 5 Show More
by Emma K. Sutton.
Chicago, 251 pp., £24, December 2023,
“... with what they have been taught about liberty … One need only put one’s back into it.’Emma Sutton’s book offers a vital counterpoint to this, by showing that – when it came to himself – James recognised the limits of self-reliance. She accompanies his public words with accounts of his private pain, including a ‘dorsal infirmity’ so ... ”