William James, Sciences of Mind, and Anti-Imperial Discourse

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William James, Sciences of Mind, and Anti-Imperial Discourse is written by Bernadette M. Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107434351 (ISBN 10) and 9781107434356 (ISBN 13).

In the past few decades, the humanities and social sciences have developed new methods of reorienting their conceptual frameworks in a 'world without frontiers'. In this book, Bernadette M. Baker offers an innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind as they formed at the turn of the twentieth century, via the concerns that have emerged at the turn of the twenty-first. The less-visited texts of Harvard philosopher and psychologist William James provide a window into contemporary debates over principles of toleration, anti-imperial discourse and the nature of ethics. Baker revisits Jamesian approaches to the formation of scientific objects including the child mind, exceptional mental states and the ghost to explore the possibilities and limits of social scientific thought dedicated to mind development and discipline formation around the construct of the West.