William James, Sciences of Mind, and Anti-Imperial Discourse - Grand Format

"Bernadette Baker offers readers an entirely fresh, rich, and illuminating reassessment of James, connecting his ruminations about the mind, religion, and philosophy to a vital concern with the combustible and stratified world in which modern subjects live... Rigorously argued, brilliantly conceived, and cogently written, this book is a towering achievement. Professor Baker has emerged as one of the most distinctive, original, and thought-provoking scholars working in the area of curriculum studies today." Cameron McCarthy, Hardie Fellow, Research Professor, Director of Global Studies in Education, University of Illinois.
"A brilliant and exemplary combination of historical research and multidisciplinary analysis... No scholar writing in English today has probed the 'givens' of the discipline of education with more patience, rigor, and profound insight than Bernadette Baker." Hannah M. Tavares, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Foundations, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. "Baker innovatively interprets William James's less-visited writings as helping to make four scientific objects : the child's mind, the exceptional mental state, the ghost, and the social scientist.
Baker presents James as intricately embroiled in the domestic and transnational debates over rationality religion, nation, civilization, and difference... [A] wide-ranging, fascinating, and timely study." Nancy Lesko, Maxine Greene Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University. "A major scholarly intervention that profoundly extends our understanding of the contribution that William James made to a wide range of disciplines...
What is truly remarkable about this book is its argument that Jamesian oeuvre in the social sciences was deeply connected to his political commitments." Fazal Rizvi, University of Melbourne, Australia, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.