Bøger af Joan Richardson

Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson charts the nineteenth-century origins of pragmatist thought and its development through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on the major first- and second-generation figures and how their contributions continue to influence philosophical discourse today. At the same time, Richardson casts pragmatism as the method it was designed to be: a way of making ideas clear, examining beliefs, and breaking old habits and reinforcing new and useful ones in the interest of maintaining healthy communities through ongoing conversation. Through this practice we come to perceive, as William James did, that thinking is as natural as breathing, and that the essential work of pragmatism is to open channels essential to all experience.

Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of Jamesian pragmatism from the late nineteenth century through modernism, following its pointings into the present. Richardson combines strands from America's religious experience with scientific information to offer interpretations that break new ground in literary and cultural history. This book exemplifies the value of interdisciplinary approaches to producing literary criticism. In a series of highly original readings of Edwards, Emerson, William and Henry James, Stevens, and Stein, A Natural History of Pragmatism tracks the interplay of religious motive, scientific speculation, and literature in shaping an American aesthetic. Wide-ranging and bold, this groundbreaking book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of American literature.

Mysteries of the Ancient Word unlocks previously sealed treasures of darkness, bringing mysteries into the light and enhancing our perspectives on the ways we live and the times we live in. From Anti-Christ to Melchizedek, exciting revelations fill these pages. The uniqueness of "Mysteries" lies in its fresh insights, attributed to the only Teacher, the Holy Spirit. This author understands what it''s like to open the Bible and sense the stale boredom of reading what we think we already know. However, disclosed secrets in deep places prove the Scriptures are not dull at all, but their words are alive and powerful, penetrating our hearts and minds. Discover the mysterious ways of G-d from ages past till now, unveiled in Mysteries of the Ancient Word. "... I was full; I''d waited forty years to write what His Spirit had been teaching me. The more I wrote, the more He opened His words to me. ..." In 2010, the Lord directed Joan to write a book about the truth of His Word. The Union is a full cup. With over 1,500 verses, Mysteries of the Ancient Word is its overflow.Joan H. Richardson received Christ as her Savior while diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in November, 1969. In 2009, she published her victorious story in her first book, A Thorn in My Flesh. Ms. Richardson is an anointed speaker and resides in Fort Worth, Texas. For more about her life, read the introduction inside Mysteries of the Ancient Word.