From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, "J...

»Kaag verwebt seine philosophischen Anliegen geschickt mit den kleinen und großen Krisen des täglichen Lebens... seine Ehrlichkeit macht Mut.« – The Wall Street Journal»Wandern mit Nietzsche« ist die Geschichte zweier philosophischer Reisen, die John Kaag unternommen hat. Die eine als junger Mann von neunzehn Jahren, die andere siebzehn Jahre später – unter gänzlich verschiedenen Umständen. Nun ist er Ehemann und Vater, seine Frau und sein Kind sind mit dabei. Kaag...

Hiking with Nietzsche is a tale of two philosophical journeys in the Swiss Alps: one made by John Kaag as an introspective teenager, the other seventeen years later in radically different circumstances - as a husband and father with his wife and small child in tow.Kaag travels to the peaks above Sils Maria where Nietzsche routinely summered, and where he wrote his mysterious landmark work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both trips are ma...

Warum der Begründer des Pragmatismus und der empirischen Psychologie auch heute noch jeden erreicht, der darum kämpft, sein Leben lebenswert zu gestalten.Im Jahr 1895 hielt William James, der Vater der amerikanischen Philosophie, einen Vortrag mit dem Titel »Ist das Leben lebenswert?«. Für James, der ein Vierteljahrhundert zuvor als junger Mann in einer existenziellen Krise über Selbstmord nachgedacht hatte, war dies bei Weitem keine theoretische Frage. Wie John Ka...

»Dieses Buch kann Ihr Leben verändern!«, Wall Street Journal.Als der junge Philosophieprofessor John Kaag im Hinterland von New Hampshire die vergessene Bibliothek von William Ernest Hocking, einem der letzten großen amerikanischen Denker entdeckt, traut er seinen Augen kaum. Unter den halb verfallenen und vermoderten Bänden findet er zahlreiche Schätze: handgeschriebene Notizen von Walt Whitman, annotierte Bücher aus dem Besitz von Robert Frost, zahllose Briefe vo...

The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life aroundJohn Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James, the father of American phil...

Use your imagination! The demand is as important as it is confusing. What is the imagination? What is its value? Where does it come from? And where is it going in a time when even the obscene mseems overdone and passé?This book takes up these questions and argues for the centrality of imagination in humanmcognition. It traces the development of the imagination in Kant’s critical philosophy (particularly the Critique of Aesthetic Judgment) and claims that the insights of Kantian aes...

From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, "James's entire philosophy, from begi...

Um livro surpreendente que mistura os dramas familiares de um professor de filosofia, seu diário de (várias) viagens e reflexões sobre Friedrich Nietzsche.O professor de filosofia da Universidade do Massachusetts John Kaag refaz, com sua esposa e a filha pequena, as trilhas dos Alpes suíços percorridas por Friedrich Nietzsche quando este escreveu "Assim Falou Zaratustra", e pelo próprio Kaag, quando era um jovem introspectivo de dezenove anos. No caminho, Kaag traça...

好好工作，才能好好活著。從酬勞、打卡、辭職的選擇，乃至於如何看待「人生」這份遠大志業影響力跨越三個世紀的哲學家 用10種思考帶我們重新校準工作的意義★亞馬遜4.7分好評★★《科克斯書評》《華盛頓郵報》《華爾街日報》《出版人週刊》等媒體讚嘆★▍名家齊聲推薦Zen大（作家、寫作溝通講師）李麗美（旅美書評人）周詠盛（哲學開箱文版主、國立體育大學兼任助理教授）鄭凱元（哲學新媒體創辦人、執行長）盧郁佳（作家）──（按姓氏筆畫順序排列）從《湖濱散記》、《公民不服從》等經典著述，到一生的人權運動與經濟思索，影響了托爾斯泰、甘地等數百年一代又一代頂尖心靈的哲學家梭羅，原來，他所有的思考核心都在這樣的一句話裡──「在工作裡，我們如何活得有意義？」後世素知梭羅以環保、廢奴主張、文學成就聞名，很少人知道他除了大量的寫作、散步、沉思之外，還是一位腳踏實地的勞動者。他...

A concise and practical manual on developing reading, writing, and critical thinking skills in tandemFor college students learning how to write on scholarly subjects, writing and critical thinking go hand in hand. And yet most books on these topics are categorized separately: writing guides and critical thinking handbooks. This book is different, offering a manual for developing reading, writing, and thinking skills in tandem. With short, practical chapters, Th...

What Thoreau can teach us about working—why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningfulHenry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked: Thoreau the worker. John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle overturn the popular misconception of Thoreau as a navel-gazing recluse who was scornful of work and other mundanities. In fact, Thoreau worked hard—surveying...