This accessible introduction to the philosophy of William James reveals a significant division between a Promethean type of pragmatism and passive mysticism which Richard Gale integrates. While James' "pragmatist" persona conceives of truth and meaning as a means to control nature and make it do our bidding, his "mystic" persona eschews the use of concepts to penetrate the inner conscious core of all being, including nature at large.

Introduction Part I. The Promethean Pragmatist  1. The ethics of Prometheanism 2. The willfulness of belief 3. The freedom of belief  4. The will to believe 5. The ethics of truth 6. The semantics of 'truth' 7. Ontological relativism: William James meets Poo-bah Part II. The Passive Mystic 8. The self 9. The I-thou quest for intimacy and religious mysticism 10. The Humpty Dumpty intuition and backyard mysticism 11. An attempt at one world interpretation of James.

Richard M. Gale is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh and Adjunct Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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