William James's lost souls in Ursula Le Guin's Utopia

Philosophy and Literature

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 89-102

  Simon, Linda ^a  

^a SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 60950415989     PISSN: 01900013     EISSN: 1086329X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/phl.2004.0013     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. William James, "The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life," The Will to Believe and other Essays in Popular Philosophy (New York: Dover, 1957)
2. William James, Pragmatism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975), p. 32. Italics in original
3. Ursula Le Guin, Introduction to "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," in The Winds Twelve Quarters (New York: Harpers, 1975), p. 273
4. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," in The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, 6th edition, R. V. Cassili and Richard Bausch, eds. (New York: Norton, 2000)
5. Jerre Collins, "Leaving Omelas: Questions of Faith and Understanding," Studies in Short Fiction, 27 (1990): 525-35
6. Shoshana Knapp, "The Morality of Creation: Dostoevsky and William James in Le Guin's 'Omelas,'" reprinted from Journal of Narrative Technique. 15 (1985): 75-81
7. in Short Story Criticism, 12, p. 239
8. Le Guin, Introduction to "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," p. 273
9. William James, "Is Life Worth Living?" The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, pp. 51, 52
10. William James, Pragmatism, p. 56
11. See William James, "The Dilemma of Determinism," The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (London: Longmans Green, 1897), pp. 145-83, especially pp. 150-51