No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us

In No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us, John J. Stuhr utilizes the thought of American philosopher and psychologist William James to develop an original world view that addresses both enduring philosophical problems and contemporary cultural issues.

John J. Stuhr is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and American Studies at Emory University. He has held faculty positions at Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania State University, University of Oregon, and Whitman College and visiting appointments in Freiburg, Germany and Melbourne, Australia. Specializing in 19th- and 20th-century American and European philosophy, ethics, and politics, he is the author or editor of a dozen books and over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters. He is Editor of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Series Editor of American Philosophy, and Founding Director of the American Philosophies Forum.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations of The Works of William James
Introduction
Chapter 1: Possibilities, Faith, and Action: Redeeming the Wild Universe through The Will to Believe
Chapter 2: Avoiding Old-Fogeyism: Plasticity, Habits of Genius, and Acts of Greatness
Chapter 3: More Inclusive Ideals: Ethical Lives After Old-Fashioned Moral Philosophy
Chapter 4: The Political Philosopher and the Political Life
Chapter 5: The Temperament of Pragmatism
Chapter 6: Everything Here Is Plastic: Radical Empiricism and Worlds of Relations
Chapter 7: Pluralism Unconcluded
Works Cited
Index