In 1895 William James the father of American philosophy delivered a lecture entitled Is Life
Worth Living?? It was no theoretical question for James who had contemplated suicide during an
existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed as John Kaag writes
James's entire philosophy from beginning to end was geared to save a life his life??and
that's why it just might be able to save yours too. Sick Souls Healthy Minds is an absorbing
introduction to James's life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical
psychology can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth
living.
