“John Kaag is the closest thing we have to William James: a breathtakingly good prose stylist; philosophically and psychologically courageous, inventive and inspiring; ruthlessly honest; unsparing about the difficulties of love, intimacy and experience; and above all, human, in the most valuable and moral sense of the word.” —Clancy Martin
John Kaag discussses American Philosophy: A Love Story, the story of his discovery of a library that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking, a direct intellectual descendent of William James, with whom Kaag feels a deep kinship. It is James’s question Is life worth living? that guides this remarkable book.
Part intellectual history, part memoir, American Philosophy is ultimately about love, freedom, and the role that wisdom can play in turning one s life around.
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