TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaag, John
TI  - Sick souls, healthy minds: : how William James can save your life
SN  - 9780691216713
U1  - 191 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Pragmatism
KW  - Modern western philosophy
N1  - Table of Contents:

Prologue: "A Disgust for Life"
1. Determinism and Despair
2. Freedom and Life
3. Psychology and the Healthy Mind
4. Consciousness and Transcendence
5. Truth and Consequences
6. Wonder and Hope
Acknowledgements
Notes
Suggested Reading
Index
N2  - In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled “Is Life Worth Living?” It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, “James’s entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life”—and that’s why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Healthy Minds is an absorbing introduction to James’s life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living
ER  -