1st Edition
The Routledge Guidebook to James’s Principles of Psychology
Author’s Preface
List of abbreviations
I. Background
Ch. 1 Life and Work
Ch. 2 Substance and Style
Ch. 3 Evidence and Interpretation
Ch. 4 Psychology and Philosophy
II. Principles
Ch. 5 Mind and Body
Ch. 6 Habit and Thought
Ch. 7 Perception and Conception
Ch. 8 Imagination and Memory
Ch. 9 Cognition and Emotion
Ch. 10 Consciousness and Subconsciousness
Ch. 11 Attention and Will
Ch. 12 Self and Others
III. Elaborations
Ch. 13 Belief and Reality
Ch. 14 Known and Unknown
Ch. 15 Publication and Beyond
Ch. 16 Epilogue and Prologue
Appendix A: Sources and Treatments
Appendix B: Coverages and Parallels
Bibliography
Index
Biography
David E. Leary is University Professor Emeritus and Dean of Arts and Sciences Emeritus at the University of Richmond, USA.
"Reflecting a lifetime of research and teaching in modern psychology and sympathetic study of its most eloquent writer, David Leary has produced a thorough and readable guide to William James’s classic text. It is a reference guide and more. Leary explains James’s ideas in the contexts of his own development, in the contexts of the emerging New Psychology of the late nineteenth century, and in their creative relation with later psychology and philosophy. This is magisterial coverage of a masterwork."
Paul Croce, Stetson University, USA, and former President of the William James Society
"David Leary’s ground-breaking book walks readers carefully through James’s masterpiece, without losing the forest for the trees. Leary shows us something that has been elusive in the literature: how the Principles of Psychology, with all its rich details, hangs together as a whole."
Alexander Klein, California State University, Long Beach, USA
