Philosophical Siblings: Varieties of Playful Experience in Alice, William, and Henry James

A collective study of the James siblings—Alice, William, and Henry—that shows how minds meet in a world teeming with possibilities and risks

Alice James: an exemplary nineteenth-century neurasthenic and diarist. William James: a foundational figure for American psychology and philosophy. Henry James: a preeminent author and literary critic. These three iconic figures of nineteenth-century American culture and letters were also siblings, children of the storied James family, yet the diarist, ...