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- Is Life Worth Living?
Is Life Worth Living?
James, William.
S. Burns Weston, ( 1896), Philadelphia
16 cm. 63 pp.
Price: $250
Brother of novelist Henry, proponent of pragmatism as a philosphical school, part-time mystic and author of “The Varieties of Religious Experience,” William James here considers a question that must have been on the minds of many of the Harvard lads to whom he addressed it in 1895, one of the earliest of his important lectures. According to the preface, “The address contained in this book was originally given before the Young Men’s Christian Association of Harvard University, in May, 1895. It was afterwards repeated before the Society for Ethical Culture of Philadelphia and the School of Applied Ethics at Plymouth. It was printed in the International Journal of Ethics for October, 1895, and, the demand for it having been so great, we are glad to have the permission of the author and of the management of the Journal to republish it in more convenient form.” Widely held institutionally, and frequently reprinted, this first printing is rarely seen in the trade. Very good condition in publisher’s brown cloth.
