Image Perhaps the reason James remains ... a more modest and specific structure than his earlier works. “I think William James’s philosophy saved my life,” Kaag writes.

Unlike many philosophers James did not have so much of his life invested in abstract theorizing that he could feel compelled to enshrine truth as a self-evident end-in-itself.

Several years ago, living in China and without the distractions of the constantly available internet, I read William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience cover to cover while riding back ...