00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000004167 20200508202615 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 082295316 010-0520004167 eng 001.03 001.03/NIL/G James Nilliam Great Books Of the Western World New York Encyclopedia Britannica 2005 Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. Volume 53 served the history, philosophy and works of William James. William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James.