8vo. 471pp. Bound in the publisher’s boards. Slip of paper attached to the front blank, ‘with the compliments of the author’. The philosopher Shadworth Hodgson’s copy, from his library by way of his bequest to Corpus Christie College, Oxford, with his and their bookplates to the front paste down and end paper, a barcode to the front paste down and library label to the bases of the spines, with occasional further library marks. Hodgson's initials to the front blank.
Spine a little faded with some wear to the spine ends. Binding sound. Contents tight and clean. James’ first book, editing the work of his father and contributing a 119 page introduction, establishing his field in print by discussing the accord and discord of philosophy and religion.
Shadworth Hodgson (1832-1912) was a British philosopher who worked and published outside the University system. He was a prolific early contributor to the journal, Mind, and part of the Scratch Eight, mostly fellow contributors, including the parapsychologist, Edmund Gurney and Virginia Woolf’s father, Leslie Stephens, who met to debate philosophical and psychological issues. It was at a meeting of the Eight where Hodgson first met the American philosopher, William James, brother of Henry James, who was invited to a meeting by Gurney. Hodgson and James were regular correspondents from that point on, with James influenced and quoting from Hodgson in his book The Principles of Psychology. James’ concept of the ‘Specious Present’ owing a debt to Hodgson’s idea of ‘the empirical present’. The phenomenologist, Edmund Husserl, who may have imbibed Hodgson through William James later credited Hodgson with insights into a subjectivist approach to philosophy.
8vo. 471pp. Bound in the publisher’s boards. Slip of paper attached to the front blank, ‘with the compliments of the author’. The philosopher Shadworth Hodgson’s copy, from his library by way of his bequest to Corpus Christie College, Oxford, with his and their bookplates to the front paste down and end paper, a barcode to the front paste down and library label to the bases of the spines, with occasional further library marks. Hodgson's initials to the front blank.
Spine a little faded with some wear to the spine ends. Binding sound. Contents tight and clean. James’ first book, editing the work of his father and contributing a 119 page introduction, establishing his field in print by discussing the accord and discord of philosophy and religion.
Shadworth Hodgson (1832-1912) was a British philosopher who worked and published outside the University system. He was a prolific early contributor to the journal, Mind, and part of the Scratch Eight, mostly fellow contributors, including the parapsychologist, Edmund Gurney and Virginia Woolf’s father, Leslie Stephens, who met to debate philosophical and psychological issues. It was at a meeting of the Eight where Hodgson first met the American philosopher, William James, brother of Henry James, who was invited to a meeting by Gurney. Hodgson and James were regular correspondents from that point on, with James influenced and quoting from Hodgson in his book The Principles of Psychology. James’ concept of the ‘Specious Present’ owing a debt to Hodgson’s idea of ‘the empirical present’. The phenomenologist, Edmund Husserl, who may have imbibed Hodgson through William James later credited Hodgson with insights into a subjectivist approach to philosophy.
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