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Damn Great Empires! - William James and the Politics of Pragmatism (Hardcover)
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Damn Great Empires! - William James and the Politics of Pragmatism (Hardcover)
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Damn Great Empires! offers a new perspective on the works of
William James by placing his encounter with American imperialism at
the center of his philosophical vision. This book reconstructs
James's overlooked political thought by treating his
anti-imperialist Nachlass - his speeches, essays, notes, and
correspondence on the United States' annexation of the Philippines
- as the key to the political significance of his celebrated
writings on psychology, religion, and philosophy. It shows how
James located a craving for authority at the heart of empire as a
way of life, a craving he diagnosed and unsettled through his
insistence on a modern world without ultimate foundations.
Livingston explores the persistence of political questions in
James's major works, from his writings on the self in The
Principles of Psychology to the method of Pragmatism, the study of
faith and conversion in The Varieties of Religious Experience, and
the metaphysical inquiries in A Pluralistic Universe. Against the
common view of James as a thinker who remained silent on questions
of politics, this book places him in dialogue with champions and
critics of American imperialism, from Theodore Roosevelt to W. E.
B. Du Bois, as well as a transatlantic critique of modernity, in
order to excavate James's anarchistic political vision. Bringing
the history of political thought into conversation with
contemporary debates in political theory, Damn Great Empires!
offers a fresh and original reexamination of the political
consequences of pragmatism as a public philosophy.
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