Wittgenstein and William James
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
2004
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loginIn this study, Russell Goodman explores Wittgenstein’s long engage-ment with the work of the pragmatist William James. He arguesthat James exerted a distinctive and pervasive positive influence onWittgenstein’s thought. The book details the commitments of thesetwo philosophers to concrete human experience, the priority of prac-tice over intellect, and the importance of religion in understandinghuman life.
