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"In this book, John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle illuminate an underexplored aspect of worked-over cultural icon Henry David Thoreau and what his thinking has to tell us about the way we work now. Henry at Work overturns the popular perception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse, scornful of work and other mundanities. Just the opposite, they argue, Thoreau worked hard and thought intensely about work: why we do it, what we hope to gain from it, and what it does to us. They aim to show readers not only Thoreau the writer and philosopher, but also the lesser-known Thoreau: Thoreau the worker, economist, and even the efficiency expert"--

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A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William JamesWilliam James—psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker—is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life’s meaning and worth, and whose ideas change not only how people think but how they live. The thinker who helped found the philosophy of pragmatism and inspire Alcoholics Anonymous, James famously asked, “is life worth living?” Bringing together many of his best and most popular essays, talks, and other writings, this anthology presents James’s answer to that and other existential questions, in his own unique manner—caring, humorous, eloquent, incisive, humble, and forever on the trail of the “ever not quite.”Here we meet a James perfectly attuned to the concerns of today—one who argues for human freedom, articulates a healthy-minded psychology, urges us to explore the stream of consciousness, presents a new definition of truth based on its practical consequences, and never forecloses the possibility of mystical transcendence. Introduced by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle, these compelling and accessible selections reveal why James is one of the great guides to the business of living.

Philosophy, American --- A Matter of Fact. --- Absolute idealism. --- Admiration. --- Allegory. --- Anecdote. --- Awareness. --- Certainty. --- Consciousness. --- Contentment. --- Courage. --- Customer. --- Depression (mood). --- Discernment. --- Disposition. --- Empirical evidence. --- Ethicist. --- Ethics. --- Existence of God. --- Explanation. --- Faith. --- Faithfulness. --- Feeling. --- Fertility. --- Fine art. --- Gloom. --- Gullibility. --- Hatha yoga. --- Health. --- Hegelianism. --- Human Action. --- Human nature. --- Human power. --- Humility. --- Hypothesis. --- Imagination. --- Immutable object. --- Indeterminism. --- Individualism. --- Ineffability. --- Inkling. --- Instant. --- Irrationality. --- Lightness (philosophy). --- Lightness. --- Logic. --- Loyalty. --- Metaphysics. --- Military service. --- Moisture. --- Moral responsibility. --- Motivation. --- Non-human. --- Obedience (human behavior). --- Omniscience. --- On Truth. --- Optimism. --- Originality. --- Our Choice. --- Perception. --- Pessimism. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Physiology. --- Pragmatism. --- Present day. --- Pride. --- Principle of sufficient reason. --- Principle. --- Rationality. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Rebuttal. --- Religion. --- Religious experience. --- Religious text. --- Result. --- Sanity. --- Saving. --- Self-Reliance. --- Sensibility. --- Seriousness. --- Sobriety. --- Social reality. --- Stoicism. --- Subjectivism. --- Subjectivity. --- Suggestion. --- Supporter. --- Term logic. --- The Light of Day (Graham Swift novel). --- The Nature of Truth. --- The Other Hand. --- Thought. --- Tranquillity. --- Transcendental idealism. --- Transcendentalism. --- Truth. --- Uniformitarianism. --- Utilitarianism. --- Utopia.