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With this book, Jacques Barzun pays what he describes as an intellectual debt to William James-psychologist. A stroll with both William James and Jacques Barzun is guaranteed to stretch one's mind, and hopefully illustrate the importance of the meaning of meaningful words.

With this book, Jacques Barzun pays what he describes as an intellectual debt to William James-psychologist. It was wonderful to be in the literary presence of such thoughtful and creative thinkers. I will repeat my stroll again and again, slowly and thoughtfully. 3 people found this helpful.

The American Philosophical Society honors Barzun with its Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, awarded annually since 1993 to the author of a recent distinguished work of cultural history. 1983 A Stroll with William James. He also received the Gold Medal for Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, of which he was twice president. Reprint University of Chicago Press, 2002: ISBN 978-0-226-03869-8.

A Stroll with William James book. With this book, Jacques Barzun pays what he describes as an "intellectual debt" to William James-psychologist, philosopher, and, for Barzun, guide and mentor

A Stroll with William James book. With this book, Jacques Barzun pays what he describes as an "intellectual debt" to William James-psychologist, philosopher, and, for Barzun, guide and mentor.

A stroll with William James. by. Barzun, Jacques, 1907-. James, William, 1842-1910. New York : Harper & Row. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; ; china.

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Jacques Barzun - 1983 - University of Chicago Press. Jacques Barzun, "A Stroll with William James". Ignas K. Skrupskelis - 1984 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 20 (2):183. Max Carl Otto (e. - 1942 - Madison, the University of Wisconsin Press. A Stroll With William James. Andrew J. Reck - 1988 - International Studies in Philosophy 20 (3):95-95. Certainty and Surface in Epistemology and Philosophical Method Essays in Honor of Avrum Stroll.

With this book, Jacques Barzun pays what he describes as an "intellectual debt" to William James-psychologist, philosopher, and, for Barzun, guide and mentor.

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The title of Jacques Barzun’s book about the American philosopher and psychologist William James is disarming-unless one recalls that a stroll with an active nineteenth century man is likely to prove a good stiff hike by twentieth century standards. Mentally, William James and his novelist brother, Henry, were so extraordinarily active that a substantial effort is required to keep up with either of the Jameses. Nor has Barzun, long an astringent critic of modern American education and society, mellowed appreciably in this book, its title notwithstanding.

by Robert Coles, Harvard University. We learn in Mr. Barzun's latest book that his sympathies have extended to both brothers. America never had - and may never enjoy again - another pair like William and Henry James.