Lexington Books
Pages: 316
Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-1-4985-5290-5 • Hardback • November 2019 • $142.00 • (£109.00)
978-1-4985-5291-2 • eBook • November 2019 • $134.50 • (£104.00)
Ermine L. Algaier IV is visiting assistant professor of philosophy and religious studies at Monmouth College.
Contents
List of Images and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Section I
Introduction
Chapter One William James’s Personal Library: A Brief History
Chapter Two The Original Source Lists of the James Collection
Chapter Three Resources for Reconstructing James’s Personal Library
Chapter Four Conservation and Preservation of the Collection
Chapter Five Markings, Marginalia, and Other Data from the collection
Chapter Six Future Research on the Collection
Section II
Brief Guide to Using the James Collection Bibliographies
Bibliography of James’s Personal Library: Harvard Collection
Bibliography of James’s Personal Library: Non-Harvard Collection
Bibliography
Index
Algaier brings meticulous research and a thorough knowledge of James's writings, life, and interests to this important volume. In reconstructing James's personal library, Algaier has produced a work of impressive scholarship.
— Linda Simon, Skidmore College
A scholar's bookshelves can track the travels of a mind's adventures. The product of meticulous academic research, Algaier's work is practically unparalleled. To know William James's library and marginalia presents a rare opportunity to get acquainted with him personally. This reading bibliography amounts to an intellectual biography of one of America's most profound minds.
— John Shook, Bowie State University
Based on years of dedicated (and talented) archival research, Algaier's book offers readers of James a studied portrait of James's own reading. A labor of true scholarly dedication, the resulting book is indispensable for those looking to understand James's own writing through his reading. In so doing the book offers compelling portraiture of Jamesian wisdom excavated from, for instance, his comments in the margins of the books he read.
— Colin Koopman, University of Oregon
A major contribution to William James studies, Algaier’s bibliography brings together the multiple sources documenting James’s large library, but more importantly provides detailed descriptions of over 1,600 volumes, many annotated by James. This book is certain to provide a springboard for fresh insights into multiple aspects of James’s thought.
— Leslie A. Morris, Gore Vidal Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts
We are, mostly, what we have read. This account of the Library of William James' library is extremely well done and it provides us with an indispensable--and in many cases a fresh--look into the mind of the man Whitehead called "that adorable genius." A major achievement.
— Robert D. Richardson, author of "William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism"
“For those who are eager to know more about James’s bibliographies and how to use James’s collection as well as for the Chinese professionals who are now intensively interested in James’s thought and works, this book is a great academic guide. The history, original source lists, resources, conservation and preservation, markings, marginalia, and other dates of James’s bibliographies and collections described here illuminate James as a real, living philosopher.”
— Wang Chengbing, Shanxi University