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Pragmatism --- Idealism --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Modern --- Positivism --- Realism --- Utilitarianism --- Experience --- Reality --- Truth

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This 2002 book explores Wittgenstein's long engagement with the work of the pragmatist William James. In contrast to previous discussions Russell Goodman argues that James exerted a distinctive and pervasive positive influence on Wittgenstein's thought. For example, the book shows that the two philosophers share commitments to anti-foundationalism, to the description of the concrete details of human experience, to the priority of practice over intellect, and to the importance of religion in understanding human life. Considering in detail what Wittgenstein learnt from his reading of Principles of Psychology and Varieties of Religious Experience the author provides considerable evidence for Wittgenstein's claim that he is saying 'something that sounds like pragmatism'. This provocative account of the convergence in the thinking of two major philosophers usually considered as members of discrete traditions will be eagerly sought by students of Wittgenstein, William James, pragmatism and the history of twentieth-century philosophy.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, --- James, William, --- James, William --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig --- Wei-tʻe-ken-ssu-tʻan, --- Wei-tʻe-ken-ssu-tʻan, Lu-te-wei-hsi, --- Wittgenstein, L. --- Vitgenshteĭn, L., --- Wei-ken-ssu-tʻan, --- Pitʻŭgensyutʻain, --- Vitgenshteĭn, Li︠u︡dvig, --- Weitegenshitan, --- Wittgenstein, Ludovicus, --- Vitgenshtaĭn, Ludvig, --- ויטגנשטיין, לודוויג --- 维特根斯坦, --- Dzhems, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- Jaymz, Vīlyām, --- جىمز، وىلىام --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann, --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, - 1889-1951 --- James, William, - 1842-1910

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Professional philosophers have tended either to shrug off American philosophy as negligible or derivative or to date American philosophy from the work of twentieth-century analytical positivists such as Quine. Russell Goodman expands on the revisionist position developed by Stanley Cavell, that the most interesting strain of American thought proceeds not from Puritan theology or from empirical science but from a peculiarly American kind of Romanticism. This insight leads Goodman, through Cavell, back to Emerson and Thoreau and thence to William James and John Dewey, as they assimilated to American circumstances and intellectual habits the currents of European thought from Kant to Wittgenstein.

Philosophy, American. --- Romanticism --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, --- James, William, --- Dewey, John, --- Philosophy. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- American philosophy --- Tu-wei, --- Tu-wei, Yüeh-han, --- Dyui, --- Dʹi︠u︡i, Dzhon, --- Dyuʼi, G'on, --- Дьюи, Джон, --- ديوى، جون، --- 杜威, --- Dīvīy, Jān, --- ديويي، جان --- Dīwʼī, Jān, --- Dīwiʼī, Jān, --- ديوئى، جان --- Diyūʼī, Jān, --- Dyūwi, Jon, --- Dyūi, Jon, --- デューウィジョン, --- デューイジョン, --- ジョン・デューウィ, --- ジョン・デューイ, --- Dzhems, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- Jaymz, Vīlyām, --- جىمز، وىلىام --- Imarsana, Rāfa Vālḍō, --- Emerson, R. W. --- Emerson, Waldo, --- Emerson, R. Waldo --- Ėmerson, Ralʹf Uoldo, --- Ai-mo-sheng, --- Emarsan̲, --- אמרסון, רלף ולדו, --- עמערסון, ראלף וואלדא,

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