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Pivotal member of the Metaphysical Club, author of The Varieties of Religious Experience, older brother of extraordinary siblings Henry and Alice, the remarkable William James put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion -- on modernism itself. In this... read more
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Characters/People edit
- William James: Add a description of this character.
- Tom Perry
- Alice Gibbens
- Harry
- Henry James Sr.
- Royce
- Wilky
- Bob
- Emerson
- Charles Peirce
- Eliot
- Minnie Temple
- Santayana
- Wendell Holmes
- Schiller
- Darwin
- Bergson
- Holt
- Henry Bowditch
- Mary
- Kate
- Chauncey Wright
- Herbert Spencer
- Dewey
- Bradley
- Peggy
- Billy
- Pauline Goldmark
- Tom Davidson
- Myers
- Henry Senior
- Papini
- Palmer
- Mill
- Freud
- Janet
- Tom Ward
Setting & Locations edit
- Cambridge
- America
- New England
- Boston
- Harvard
- New York City
- Newport
- Europe
- Paris
- London
- Chocorua
- Amazon
- Germany
- Massachusetts
- California
- Goethe
- Concord
- Edinburgh
- Florence
- Chicago
- Rye
- Geneva
- United States
- Keene Valley
- Brazil
- Swedenborg
- Berkeley
- Oxford
- Rome
- Atlantic
- San Francisco
- Florida
- Maine
- Bryn Mawr
- Bonn
- Milwaukee
- Dresden
- Berlin
- St. Louis
- Switzerland
- Princeton
- Albany
- Italy
- France
- Boulogne
- Stanford
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert D. Richardson (Author)
Awards edit
- Bancroft Prize (2007)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 191
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Movements & Periods › Modernism
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Arts & Literature › Authors
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Professionals & Academics › Philosophers
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Professionals & Academics › Social Scientists & Psychologists
- Books › Nonfiction › Philosophy
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