TY  - BOOK
AU  - Livingston,Alexander
TI  - Damn great empires!: William James and the politics of pragmatism 
SN  - 9780190237189 (ebook) :
AV  - B945.J24 L58 2016
U1  - 320.092 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - James, William,
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Territorial expansion
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Annexation to the United States
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2016; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 'Damn Great Empires!' provides a new perspective on the works of William James by placing his encounter with American imperialism at the centre of his philosophical vision. This book reconstructs his overlooked political thought by treating James's anti-imperialist Nachlass - his speeches, essays, notes, and correspondence on the United States' annexation of the Philippines - as the key to the political significance of his celebrated writings on psychology, religion, and philosophy. It shows how James located a craving for authority at the heart of empire as a way of life, a craving he diagnosed and unsettled through his insistence on a modern world without ultimate foundations
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190237158.001.0001
ER  -