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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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The reception of William James in continental Europe

Jaime Nubiola

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Abstract

By the time of his death in 1910 at the age of 68 years, William James had become the most influential thinker not just of his own period, but indeed of any period. As the sociologist Jack Barbalet has written: “His European reputation was possibly even higher than his standing in America. James not only represented to European thinkers the American advances in psychology and philosophy, for which he was largely responsible, but he entered into the formation of contemporary European thought as much as he did American.” The aim of this paper is to provide a vivid sense of James’s personal involvement with European thought generally and continental philosophy specifically, giving some indications about various European countries, but with particular attention to Spain as a case study. Accordingly, the talk divides into three sections: (1) Europe in James; (2) James in Europe: friends and translations; and (3) James in Spain: translations and readers. A number of names and facts will be mentioned, since they provide the general framework for understanding the reception of William James in Continental Europe, but in particular the personal relations between William James and some of the most relevant European thinkers of his time are highlighted.

Publication details

Published in:

(2011) Contemporary reassessment of William James a century later. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 3 (1).

DOI: 10.4000/ejpap.869

Full citation:

Nubiola Jaime (2011) „The reception of William James in continental Europe“. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 3 (1), n/a.