Sick Souls, Healthy Minds

From the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William James In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, "James`s entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life"-and that`s why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Healthy Minds is an absorbing introduction to James`s life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living.