For starters, in Cornell West‘s inimitable style:
William James brought heart to the intellect and passion to the world of ideas in an unprecedented manner in American life. He is the most profound, adorable, and unpretentious public intellectual in American history.
–Cornel West, Princeton University (20100701)
[credits: amazon.ca/.com book reviews for The Heart of William James (2010), put together by biographer Robert D. Richardson on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his death]
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on William James (Jan 11, 1842 – Aug 26, 1910)
- Other online encyclopedias
- Below a lecture on James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience, The Will to Believe and related, by contemporary pragmatist philosopher Prof. Richard Rorty (1931-2007), by all accounts dearly missed by those who knew him.
- YouTube credit: Parts 1-4 uploaded byneopragvideoon Oct 7, 2008
- Audio of Chapter Twenty-nine from Book Three, Part Two of Bertrand Russell’s “The History of Western Philosophy” (1945): Part 1 here, and Part 2 below:
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YouTube credit: Parts 1&2 uploaded by workingklass0on May 12, 2011
- Just YT-search William James + philosophy, psychology, pragmatism for some good YouTube vid’s.
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