The Historian, September 22nd, 2004
A Stroll with William James. By Jacques Barzun. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. viii, 344. $18.00.)
William James once defined the humanities as the study of the masterpieces of geniuses, in any field of human endeavor. He was himself indisputably a genius and created at least one masterpiece, his Principles of Psychology (1890). In A Stroll with William James, Jacques Barzun is minutely attentive to the character of James's genius and the masterworks he created. Thereby, he says, he is discharging in this book his "intellectual debt" of forty years to James (vii...
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