Xiii, 309 Pp.Tan Cloth With Printed Spine Label, Over Brown Cloth Covers, Top Edge Gilt. First English Edition, In Format Identical To American Edition. Book Is Lightly Worn, Spine With A Little Browning. Dust Jacket With Edge Wear, Completely Split Along Front Spine Edge But Holding Nicely In Dust Jacket Protector, Chipping At Corners, Some Light Soiling And Browning With Pronounced Browning To Spine, No Loss Of Lettering. Sidney Hook, In His Preface To Boorstin's Reprinting Of Selections From This Text In His American Primer (1966), States "William James's Pragmatism Is Indisputably The Most Important Book In American Philosophy. It Is Important Not So Much Because Of Its Profundity As Because Of Its Popular Influence. At Home And Especially Abroad It Is Accepted As Representative Of A Distinctly American Philosophy, And Is Considered A Work That Articulates With Candor And Dash Those Elements And Attitudes In The American Experience Which Transformed The Pioneers Of A Trackless Waste Into The Masters Of A Supremely Powerful Technological Civilization. Of The Delivery And Reception Of The Lectures At Columbia University, He Wrote That They Were 'Certainly The High Tide Of My Existence, So Far As Energizing And Being Recognized' Were Concerned." A Near Fine Copy Of The First British Edition, In The Very Scarce Brown Dustjacket , With Price 4/6 On Spine. Ownership Signature Dated 1917 Of Prominent Civil Engineer John Woods Beckman, Who With His Wife Gertrude Helped Nobel Prize Winner William Giaque To Further His Education And Academic Career; Later Inscribed By The Beckmans To Henry F. May, Historian Of American Intellectual Life In The Early Twentieth Century, In 1961. Seller Inventory # 009455

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Title: Pragmatism / A New Name For Some Old Ways Of...

Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co., London

Publication Date: 1907

Binding: Tan Quarter Cloth Over Boards

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: First British Edition

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