No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us

John J. Stuhr is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and American Studies at Emory University. He has held faculty positions at Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania State University, University of Oregon, and Whitman College and visiting appointments in Freiburg, Germany and Melbourne, Australia. Specializing in 19th- and 20th-century American and European philosophy, ethics, and politics, he is the author or editor of a dozen books and over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters. He is Editor of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Series Editor of American Philosophy, and Founding Director of the American Philosophies Forum.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations of The Works of William James Introduction Chapter 1: Possibilities, Faith, and Action: Redeeming the Wild Universe through The Will to Believe Chapter 2: Avoiding Old-Fogeyism: Plasticity, Habits of Genius, and Acts of Greatness Chapter 3: More Inclusive Ideals: Ethical Lives After Old-Fashioned Moral Philosophy Chapter 4: The Political Philosopher and the Political Life Chapter 5: The Temperament of Pragmatism Chapter 6: Everything Here Is Plastic: Radical Empiricism and Worlds of Relations Chapter 7: Pluralism UnconcludedWorks Cited Index

John Stuhr's No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us masterfully voices the animating principles of William James's pragmatism as an on--going, collective project. Attuned to the full sweep of James's thought from his earliest to his latest writings, Stuhr gives us a new, and newly comprehensive James, one invigorated and tuned to the demands of our own time. Every day is a good day to read James. Stuhr not only reminds us why; he shows us how urgent it is to keep reading and to keep the pragmatic spirit alive