The Creation of Chaos: William James and the Stylistic Making of a Disorderly WorldSUNY Press, 27 de set. 1991 - 185 pàgines This is the first book-length study of William James style, arguing that the manner in which James writes The Principles of Psychology and The Varieties of Religious Experience serves to construct a chaotic world for his readers. The book examines the uses of chaos in western literature and philosophy and reaches two conclusions: that chaos may be utter confusion and disorder, but, paradoxically, that disorder is communicated through some particular order in Joyce s term, all chaos is chaosmos. Secondly, what is essential about chaos is what it does: nothing is inherently chaotic, rather chaos is used to contrast with or challenge something that is more structured or formed. Finally, the author presents an examination of the religious function of James chaotic worldview as a disorientation which orients. |
Continguts
The Maelstrom The Chaotic in The Principles of Psychology Part 1 | 1 |
the critical view | 3 |
chaosmos | 8 |
roots of the chaotic in Jamess crisis years 18671872 | 13 |
A Mind So Purely Fluid The Chaotic in The Principles of Psychology Part 2 | 21 |
A circumscription of the chaotic | 24 |
the stream | 29 |
Change | 33 |
The form of The Principles of Psychology | 75 |
Formal eclecticism | 79 |
Interactions of forms in the principles | 92 |
Multiple voices | 96 |
image streams | 101 |
Reorientation | 104 |
Chaos out of cosmos | 107 |
Instruction from the Living Voice Creating Chaos in The Varieties of Religious Experience | 109 |
Personality | 35 |
Interest | 37 |
Objects | 40 |
The relationship of inner to outer chaos | 41 |
The neural stream | 42 |
old fogeyism | 44 |
The Floods and Waterspouts of God The Chaotic in The Varieties of Religious Experience | 51 |
Biographical context | 52 |
The chaotic in The Varieties of Religious Experience | 57 |
Religion and the chaotic | 66 |
Meanderings Zigzags and Circles Creating Chaos in The Principles of Psychology Introduction | 69 |
The constructive role of form | 70 |
The constructivist view of narrative | 72 |
Generic multiplicity | 110 |
Multiplicity of voices | 112 |
Disruptive disorientation | 120 |
Conclusion | 123 |
scope authority and benefit | 125 |
Chaotic orientation | 127 |
The chaotic and disorientation | 129 |
the rhetoric of religious symbols | 135 |
Notes | 141 |
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