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accretion
and asymmetry, 76
and crystal growth, 75
and Emerson’s style, 76,78
and Henry James’s use of words, 152
as mode of development, 17
and William James’s Principles, 163
as vehicle of cognition (W. James), 222
action potentials, 107,120
adaptation, 65,95,101,220,227
and Darwin revising Origin, 6
of Darwinian method by Peirce, 124
and Emerson, 67,76
of rhetorical forms, 6
syntactic, 19
and thinking, 8
Adorno, Theodor (Aesthetic), 98
aesthetic, the / aesthetics, 98
activity of, 264n.51
American aesthetic into Pragmatism, 11,12,21
(Stevens)
and American style, 32
as category of thought, 3
centrality of for W. James, 100
corruption of idea of, 256–7n.25
and Edwards, 58
emergence of as category of thought, 70,85
emergence of new, 226
and Emerson, 71,73
etymology, 164
experience of as religious, 152
as feeling, sensation, 47
and Kant, 69
as morality (H. James), 174
and pleasure (W. James and Fechner), 220
and religious experience (W. James), 103,121
restoring balance, 135
“science of” (Baumgarten), 188
and Stein, 252
and Stevens, 188
structure of, 224
and W. James, 100
and W. James’s “interest,” 104
and Whitehead, 10
see also Edwards, Jonathan
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
James, Henry
James, William
Stein, Gertrude
Stevens, Wallace
affect, affection/s, 89
and Edwards, 13,37,40,41,51–5
and Emerson, 62
of the mind (Emerson), 64
and power of words (Emerson), 76
and Stein, 246
Agassiz, Louis, 120,121.
See also James, William
The Ambassadors, see James, Henry
amplification
and Edwards, 42,53
and Emerson, 43
and H. James, 171
and language as computational instrument, 146
as mode of argument, 1
in Old Testament, 41
by repetition and variation, 40
and Stevens, 43,194
and style of Edwards and Emerson, 42
and W. James (Principles), 163,194
amplifier
human body as (Whitehead), 126
analogy, 60
Locke’s use of, 4,9
as participatory performance, 61
and probability, 120
and Stein, 238
See also crystals, crystallization, crystallography
anamorphosis, 4,143,256n.19,289n.109
in botany, 157
definition of, 155
and H. James, 18,156
and “historical drift of time,” 154
in Holbein and H. James, 154
Anderson, Wallace, 28,33–4
appetite, appetition, 87,220
and Edwards, 55–6
and Emerson’s aesthetic choices, 15
as exercise of imagination (Emerson), 14
of language, 8,10
of language and thought, 6
and satisfaction (Whitehead), 7
of thought (Whitehead), 56,67,220
and W. James, 7
Arensberg, Walter (Arensberg Circle), 20, 205
Aristotle (subject–predicate distinction), 3
asymmetry
and crystal growth, polarity, 76,202,218
attention, 226
and Edwards, 25,31,55
to mind in thinking, 148
optical (Helmholtz), 127
and W. James, 107,118
(habit of) 126,127,163
(as consciousness)
see also Edwards, Jonathan
James, William,
aurora borealis, 130,212
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 31,201,241,262n.23
Bacon, Francis, 1,2,21,26,66,89,205
balance
of belief, 40
homeostasis and aesthetic function, 22,103,105,119,135,191,202
and Stevens, 207
and W. James, 99
Balzac, Honore de, 19,138
Louis Lambert, 140,166–71
Bancroft, George, 58
Barthes, Roland, 7
Bateson, William, 234,235–6,241
Baumgarten, Alexander, 188
Beach, Joseph Warren, 268n.5
Beer, Gillian, 83,85,125,128,214,253n.6,256n.24
on language theory, 91–3
on language used by scientists, 128–9
belief, 61,115,119,160
degrees of (Hacking), 215
and habit, 42,202
neurological effects of (W. James), 190
and sensation, thinking as basis of (H. James), 171
and Stevens, 185,188
and W. James, 105,106,116
See also Stevens, Wallace
Bell, Charles, 48. See also Emerson, Ralph Waldo: reading in common with Darwin
Benjamin, Walter, 133,293n.92
Bernard, Claude (homeostasis), 114,259n.64
Bible, 3, 28, 65, 99, 200. See also Book of Psalms; Book of Revelation
Bloom, Harold, 111
Bohr, Niels, 183,214,218
on the atom, 205–6,208–9
on Einstein’s achievement, 216
and Lucretius, 186
and Stevens, 22,204–6,208–9
wave–particle duality as “irrational element,” 204
Book of Psalms, 192,199,200–1,204
Book of Revelation, 137,165,166
Boscovich, Roger, 207
brain,
activity of (recursive), 31
activity of (W. James), 31
changes in as aurora borealis (W. James), 130,212
description of (Emerson), 66–7
fractal neural networks of, 248
mirror neurons in, 71
model of (Stein), 248
orientation association area (OAA), 56–7
self-regulation of (feedback), 229
soul in (Edwards), 57
states of (W. James), 16,130
Brinnin, John Malcolm, 242
Brower, Reuben, 240
Brown, Lee Rust, 80,258n.49
Browne, Janet, 90
Browne, Thomas, 62,88
Buell, Lawrence, 49,64,270n.40,271n.66,273n.112
Bunn, James H., 262n.24
Bunyan, John, 109,111,112
Cameron, Sharon, 145
Carlyle, Thomas, 85
Cavell, Stanley, 12,110,254n.9
Chamberlain, Ava, 39
Christ, Jesus, 65,191–2,195
Clark, Andy, 137,140,141,143–5,146,147–8,149,228,251,256n.23
on conversion of patterns in second-order cognitive dynamics, 152
on second-order cognitive dynamics, 149–50
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 9,48,68,90,262n.24
continuity, law of, 1,89,120,205
conversion
directions for (Edwards), 39
and Edwards, 25,32,37,41,55,57
and Emerson (secular), 14,65,75,117,244
idea of (secular use and Emerson), 139
of idea of subject (W. James), 105
and language (Emerson), 230
conversion (cont.)
light as model for (Edwards), 33
and organic process (Emerson), 76
of patterns (in second-order cognitive dynamics), 152
and Stevens, 193,197
and W. James, 103–4,108–11
(of Emerson’s “Crossing” passage), 119,194
Cotton, John, 6
Crary, Jonathan, 260n.9
Crick, Francis, 69,159,226,250,252,290n.133
Croce, Paul Jerome, 100,122,124,133
crystals, crystallization, crystallography, 84,134,202,207,229
aperiodic (genome), 232
and asymmetry, 76,202
crystal analogy, 69,81
(for Darwin and Emerson), 69,96,135
(Haraway), 252
“crystal soul” (Haeckel), 200
Delbruck on, 214
and DNA molecule, 69
and Emerson, 63
and formation of snowflake, 211,218
(Fibonacci Series and spiralling)
growth of by accretion, 152
growth of by repetition, 72
and lattice of space, 200
and spiralling form, 31–2
and Stevens, 201–2
structure and behavior of, 75–6
and Swedenborg, 17,75–6
see also Swedenborg, Emanuel,
cybernetics, 229,259n.64
Damasio, Antonio, 247,254–5n.12
Daniel, Stephen, 47–8
Danielewski, Mark Z., 257n.34
Dante Alighieri, 21,74,169
Darwin, Charles, 1,48,70,78,79,90–5,218,223,224,225,235
and adaptation and linguistic form, 6
and Chauncey Wright, 122
on common ancestry, 227
on evolution, 63,91
on free will, 87,119
and language, 4,81,83
and language theory, 90–3
on mind as thought-secreting organ, 105
and natural selection, 40
on pleasure, 6–7,87,220
reading in common with Emerson, 88
reading Paradise Lost, 81–2
and thinking as life form, 8
on thought, 2
and W. James, 103,105,114,120,126–7
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 105
On the Origin of Species, 1,8,40,113
method of 127
probability and, 120
revision of, 4,6,81
style of, mimetic of evolutionary process, 16
Davy, Humphry, 90
de Broglie, Louis, 180,181
Delbruck, Max, 208–10,214,218
Descartes, Rene, 4,9
Dewey, John, 140
Dickinson, Emily, 12,257n.33,272n.86
distortion, 40,121,220
and Anne Hutchinson, 6
and Edwards, 58
Emerson on, 8
of H. James’s style, 19,153,156
and Mercator projections, 4
“more than rational,” 3,40,58,121,143,173,220
rhetorical (Antinomian Crisis), 6
in syntax and grammar, 10
and Whitehead, 220
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), 15,232,248,250
and crystallization, 69
and RNA information transfer, 31,79,115,202,227,248
Dydo, Ulla (and William Rice), 233,237
Eddington, Sir Arthur, 171,184
Edelman, Gerald M., 125,238,248
theory of neuronal group selection (TNGS), 125,130
Edwards, Jonathan, 4,94,96
and “actual ideas,” 25,27,30,31,35,37,39,47,55,57
and adaptation of traditional forms of expression, 6
and affect, affection/s, 13,37,40,41,51–5
(illustration of), 57
amplification in style of, 40,42,53
and appetite, appetition, 55
“appetite of the mind,” 56
and attention, 31
(and will), 46,55
“attention to the mind in thinking,” 25,29,30,35,54
and Bible, 28
“Blank Bible,” 42
and breakdown of subject–predicate scheme, 9,47
and conversion, 25,32,33,37
(experience of) 39
(directions for), 41,57
and “delight,” 13,14,35,57,59–60
“dependence” for, 59–61
and Emerson, 63,64–5,118
and “excellence,” “excellency,” 45
and fact and feeling, 39
and feeling, 53,55
and Great Awakening, 6
and habit, perceptual, 42
and habit as “natural . . . foundation for action,” 34,42
and habit of contemplating nature, 30
and light, 13–14,29
(as language of God) 32,33
(as model of conversion), 33,38,44
(and God’s grace), 47
(behavior of)
mutation of style, 39
mutations of utterance, 39
and Newton’s Opticks, 5,14,24–5,28,35–7,45–6,53,60
and performance in/of language, 52,59
“prehension” for, 55
and relation of God and nature, 39
and relation of matter to spirit, 38
and repetition, 35,39,41,50,52,57,58
and repetition as “creation,” 38
“room of the idea,” 4,25,29,41,47,55
“sense of the heart,” 9,25,29,32,33,47,48–50
(definition), 194
“sensible knowledge,” 25
“speculative knowledge,” 25
on spiders and linguistic form, 14
spiralling use of words, 31,34,40
style of, 10,39
(of preaching)
and typology, 27,30,32,36,47,51,52,261n.14
and W. James, 102
and will, 31,34
“Of Atoms,” 33,38
“Beauty of the World,” 46
“Of Being,” 34,179
The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of the Spirit of God, 49
A History of the Work of Redemption, 39,40, 58
Images or Shadows of Divine Things, 27,44,214
Miscellany no. 782, “Ideas. Sense of the Heart. Spiritual Knowledge or Conviction. Faith,” 24,25,61,255n.17
“Natural History of the Mental World or of the Internal World” (“The Mind”), 31,52,146
Personal Narrative, 13,14,35,37,56,57,58,59
Religious Affections, 34,102,262n.34
“Things to be Considered an[d] Written fully about,” 35,38
Thoughts on the Revival of Religion in New England, 49
see also Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Einstein, Albert, 22,118,183,184,200,213,216
electromagnetism, 117
language of, 126
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 48,98,99,112,115,121,139,146,156,225,229,233,252,278n.49
and accretion as stylistic feature, 76,78
and adaptation of voice, 76
and the aesthetic, 71,73,89
and amplification as stylistic feature, 42
“axis of vision,” 14,40–1,65
and Coleridge, 68
and collapse of time, 169
conversion for, 14,65,75,117,139,244
and crystal metaphor/analogy, 63
and Edwards, 63,64,65,67,71,76,79,89
facts for, 67
and Goethe (Organismus), 68
and imagination, 77
and indexing, 15,43,76,79
and Jardin des Plantes, 14,66,85,97
and language, 8,68,77
(as “organ”), 78,80
(“of facts”), 81,93,230
(Nature)
“Man Thinking,” 162
mind for, 63,67
(as “organic agent”), 104
(action of)
natural historians, philosophers, scientists read by, 66
“natural history of the intellect,” 15,78
and Naturphilosophie, 68
“original relation to the universe,” 62
and Paradise Lost, 86
on pleasure, 63,244
and polarity, 65,78
read by Stevens, 21,187,200
reading in common with Darwin, 88
on relation/s, 63,64,161
and repetition, 76
on spirit, 39,67
and “stubborn fact,” 275n.7
style of, 3,79
style of and “imperfect replication,” 14–15,111–12
and Swedenborg, 14,66,72–3,75,76,134, 150
and thinking as life form, 8
“to think,” 143
and W. James, 109–10
and wave theory, 207
“Circles” (“the flying Perfect”), 174
“The Divinity School Address,” 66,102,193,194–6,197,199
“Experience,” 80,250
“The Method of Nature,” 11,79
“A Natural History of the Intellect,” 43
Nature (1836), 10,42,62,63,68,87,104
“Poetry and Imagination,” 243–4,261n.10
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (cont.)
Representative Men, 62,63,66
“Spiritual Laws,” 137–8
see also James, Henry
James, William
Stein, Gertrude
Stevens, Wallace
empiricism, radical, 1. See also James, William
English, Daylanne, 242
“errors of descent”
and “imperfect replication” (Steve Jones), 40
An Essay concerning Human Understanding, see Locke, John
Euler, Leonhard, 207
evolution, evolutionary process, 8,15,39,63,84,121,213,250
and modern evolutionary synthesis, 15,40
and music, 226
and mutation, 40
and Origin as mimetic of, 16
and Principles as mimetic of, 16
and probability, 120
and Stein, 241
and W. James, 101,106
fact/s, 263n.41
Darwinian, 101
for Edwards, 39
for Emerson, 67
necessary redefinition of (Hacking), 215
“stubborn fact/s” (Emerson, James, and Whitehead), 10,202,275n.7
for W. James, 99,163
see also James, William
Faraday, Michael, 90,108,117,207,213
and electromagnetism and polarity, 65
and Helmholtz, 17
and influence on W. James, 118
Fechner, G. T. (on pleasure and the aesthetic), 220
feedback
and brain self-regulation, 229
feedback loops, 248
and feedforward loops, 130
mimetic and H. James, 157
and recursive brain activity, 31
feeling/s
as “actual idea,” 47
for Edwards, 53,55
and fact, 40
“lures for” (Whitehead), 10
“structure of” (Williams), 79,220
of time (Eddington), 171
of time and Strether, 172–3
as vectors, 126,164
(Whitehead)
and W. James, 7,29
(and learning), 98,101,164,176,177–8,266n.76
for Whitehead, 10
for words (Stevens), 198
see also James, William
Feyerabend, Paul, 5,49,254n.8
Feynman, Richard, 213
Fibonacci Series, 31,218
Fodor, Jerry, 256n.23
Foucault, Michel, 3
Freeman, Walter, 298n.206
Freud, Sigmund, 110–11,116
The Interpretation of Dreams, 21,116
and pleasure, 6
Frost, Robert, 12,208
Frye, Northrop, 202
Galileo, Galilei, 86
Gavin, William Joseph, 279n.57
genetics, 40,236
and modern evolutionary synthesis, 15,40
genome (human), 232,233–4
and word patterning in Stein, 240
God
idea of, 11,12
language of (Edwards), 29
as light, 60
metaphor for mind of, 89
mind of, 44
“Spirit of” (Edwards), 30
transformation of idea of, 89
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 200
and crystal analogy, 69
and Organismus, 68,189
Greenblatt, Stephen, 155,158
Grimm, Jacob G.
and language theory, 91–3
habit
“of accurate thought” (Tyndall), 159
as aspect of life of the mind and Pragmatism, 1
of attention (Stein), 248
of contemplating nature (Edwards), 30
of cultivating attention (W. James), 118
and language, 153
as “natural foundation for action” (Edwards), 34,42
and neuronal currents, 160
perceptual (Edwards), 42
shaping perception, 202
of speech, 13
W. James on, 8
Hacking, Ian, 95
on emergence of probability and words in their sites, 214–16
and “particulate fact,” 226
Haeckel, Ernst, 200
and crystal analogy, 69
and “crystal soul,” 200
Hamann, Georg, 95
Haraway, Donna, on metaphor and crystal analogy, 68–70,135
Hazlitt, William, 218
Heaney, Seamus, 223
Heidegger, Martin, 251
Heimert, Alan, 260n.4
Heisenberg, Werner, 186
and language and atoms, 206
and set of relations, 207
and Stevens, 22,186
Hejinian, Lyn, 248
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 117,130
and “interest” (W. James), 156
and physiological optics, 226
and W. James, 17,125–8
Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 95
Hindemith, Paul, 209
Hocks, Richard, 285n.10,286n.37
Holbein, Hans the Younger, The Ambassadors, 19, 142, 158, 256n.19. See also James, Henry
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 268n.5,268n.19
homeostasis, homeostatic balance, 107,114,191,259n.64
and aesthetic function, 22
described by N. Weiner, 229
perceptual, 103
as style, 40–1
Hooke, Robert (Micrographia), 26
Humboldt, Alexander von, 95,111
Hume, David, 4,215,230
Hutchinson, Anne (Antinomian Crisis), 6
imagination
activity of, 128
for Emerson, 77
for W. James and C. S. Peirce, 120
“interest”
for W. and H. James, 67,89,156,163
for W. James, 6,104
(and the aesthetic), 134,163
James, Henry, 89,98,99,113,124
aesthetic as morality, 174
and anamorphosis, 18,143,154,156, 157
and Balzac (Louis Lambert), 166–71
and consciousness, 145,149,152
(“double consciousness”)
and distortion, 156
on experience and consciousness, 230–1
and feeling, 164
and “feeling of time” (Strether), 172–3
and H.G. Wells, 154
and Holbein (The Ambassadors), 19,142–3,153,154
and “interest,” 156
language of, 132
navigation used as metaphor by, 143,144,145,146,152,161–3
(and reading pragmatically)
and performance of language, 151
and pleasure, 157
reading Pragmatism, 18,140,149
and Swedenborg, 138–9,165
and time, 171
and “the vague,” use of, 145,159
and W. James, 140 (Pragmatism), 145 (Principles)
The Ambassadors, 17,18,133,140
New York Edition (1907–9), 17,143,153
Notes of a Son and Brother, 158
A Small Boy and Others, 133,159,164, 176
James, Henry, Sr., 98,99,110,112,113,119
and encouraging sons to debate, 18
and Swedenborg, 112–13,133
James, William, 51,52,61,63,89,94,141,183,226,252
and the aesthetic (centrality of), 100
aesthetic and “interest,” 104
aesthetic and religious experience 103,105
and Agassiz, 112,114
and amplification, 163,193–4
(of “there”)
on attention, 107,118,126,127
and belief, 105,106,116,190
(neurological effects of)
on brain activity, 31,47
brain changes as aurora borealis, 212
on “brain-states,” 16,130
and Bunyan, 115,116,117
“cash-value,” 104,105
(of conversion)
cinematic sense of perception, 225
and Claude Bernard, 114
common sense for, 224
and consciousness, 160,162–3
(and attention), 177–8
(and language), 207
(as wave function)
conversion for, 103–4,119
conversion of Emerson “Crossing” passage, 108–11,194
conversion of idea of subject, 105
and Darwin, 103,114
and “darwinian facts,” 101
and Darwinian information, 121
and Darwinian notion of chance production, 229
and Edwards, 102,118
and Emerson, 102,107
(“the divine Emerson”), 109–10,114,117,278n.49
and evolution (theory of), 101,106
“experience” for, 99,104
on “fact/s,” 99,163
James, William (cont.)
and Faraday, influence of, 118
on feeling/s, 7,98,101,111,164,176,177–8,224
(and “relations”)
and free will, 104,116,117,119,126,135
on habit, 8
and Helmholtz, 17,125–8,156
“interest/s” for, 6,104,134,156,163
and Kant, 116–17
and language (performative function of), 122,131
mind as pragma, 100
and Mozart, 225
nervous collapse of (“vastation”), 107,108–9,113,116,117
on nervous system, 107
and neural wave activity, 129
and neurology, 106
and the Odyssey, 114
and Peirce, 123–4,129
and pleasure, 220
and Pragmatism and radical empiricism, 1
radical empiricism of, 131,233,244,264n.51,278n.41
(“doctrine of relations”)
and “relation/s,” 101,105
(“relation in relation”), 175–6
(senses of), 249
on sound of words, 228
and Stein, 19,232,234,245
and Stevens, 187,218
and “stubborn facts,” 10,99,202
style of, 106
and Swedenborg, 17,73,173
“there,” 230
on thinking/thought, 7,8
(as life form), 17
(processes of)
“the vague,” 17,101,108,120,125,145,207,276n.16,279n.57
and will, 151,174–5
Pragmatism, 17,74,96,215,251
and H. James reading, 18,140,149
The Principles of Psychology, 2
(and Origin), 16,17,19,28–9
(and neuronal paths in cortex) 100,101,106,125,129,131
(style of) 140,143,146,151,154
(“Perception of Time”) 156,162,164,190,222
“The Stream of Thought,” 7,94,129,160,255–6n.18
The Varieties of Religious Experience, 17,101–3,104,106–7,115,119,131
(style of) 190
The Will to Believe, 151
“A World of Pure Experience,” 249
Jesus Christ, see Christ
Joad, C. E. M., 206
Johnson, Thomas Hope, 209,210,212,213
Jones, Steve, 40
Kant, Immanuel, 69,71,72,95,116–17,138
Kepler, Johannes, 217
Kibbey, Ann, 256n.22
Kimnach, Wilson, 33,39,49
Knight, Janice, 30,38,44,51
Koch, Christof, 159,226,289n.85,290n.133,298n.191
Krook, Dorothea, 286n.34
Kuhn, Thomas, 68
Langer, Suzanne, 13,249
language
and aesthetic function, 10
appetition of, 8,10
as computational transformer, 143,146, 147–8
and consciousness (W. James), 177–8
corporeal aspects of (Carlyle), 85
Darwinian, 83
and Emerson, 8,68,78,230
evolution of, 218
as fact, 10
“of facts” (Emerson), 80
fluency in and repetition, 27–8
as fundamental power (Darwin and Emerson), 81
and H. James, 132
H. and W. James’s understanding of (Emerson), 74
and habit, 153
inadequacy of, 19
and Langer, 13
as life form (H. and W. James), 140
as matter, 48,202
mimetic forms of, 13
as ministerial performance, 10–11
occulting properties of, 19
as organ (Emerson), 77
as organic form, 6
as performance, 3
performative function of (W. James), 122
as pragma, 208
as prayer, 244
and quantum theory (Bohr), 205–6
and quantum theory (Heisenberg), 206
relation to thinking, 96
scientists, use of and sensible effects, 128–9
sentences as “vibratory organisms” (Whitehead), 238
Shakespearean, 2
and Stevens, 21
and thought (debate on), 256n.23
used pragmatically, 141
as vehicle of activity of consciousness (H. and W. James), 148
and W. James, 131
and wave behavior, 129
see also Edwards, Jonathan
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
James, Henry
James, William
Stein, Gertrude
Stevens, Wallace
language theory, 84,90–3
Levin, Jonathan, 100
Lewontin, Richard, 256n.23,301n.58
Lieberman, Philip, 247
light, 32
activating asymmetry and polarity, 218
descriptions of, 213
and Edwards, 13–14,29,32–4,38
as God, 60
and spiritual energy, 137
and Stevens, 183–4
see also Edwards, Jonathan
Locke, John
use of analogy and breakdown of subject–predicate scheme, 9
epistemology of as snow melting (Hazlitt), 218
and extension of Cartesian perceptions into empiricism, 4
“furniture of the mind,” 4,69
imagination of, 60
language as fact, 10
“Presence-room,” 25
and semiotike, 48,50,146
tabula rasa, 56
theory of language (Miller on), 9
on words and ideas, 8
An Essay concerning Human Understanding, 4,5,24,47
Lodge, David, 286n.25
Loeb, Jacques, and free will and tropism, 135
Loewinsohn, Ron, 260n.4
Lovejoy, Arthur O., 295n.137
Lucretius, 66,84,186
Luther, Martin, 50
Lyell, Charles, 37,83,92,95,225,263n.41
Malcolm, Janet, 233,243
Mallarme, Stephane, 22,229
Marsden, George, 32,42,261n.23
Marvell, Andrew,
“The Garden,” 177
Maxwell, James Clerk, 89,117
Mayr, Ernst,
“imperfect replication,” 40
McDermott, John J., 278n.41
Menand, Louis, 121–2
Mendel, Gregor, 40,236,237
metaphor
of “critical opalescence,” 211
and I. A. Richards and H. James, 157
for mind of God, 89
of navigation (H. James), 143–6,152
as principle of organization in science, 68,129,135
of snow (Stevens), 216
Meyer, Steven, 233,235,238–41,243,247,248,249,251
Milch, David, xii
Miller, Perry, 9,24,28,32,47,51,257n.39,261n.14,269n.39,277n.22
Milton, John, Paradise Lost, 81–2,84,86, 87,97
mimesis
and feedback, 157
and linguistic forms, 13,86
of texts (Emerson), 80
“mimetic logic” (Posnock), 156
mind
activity of (Emerson), 63,74,79,104,202
(and Necker cube), 151
(stochastic), 262n.24
(as pleasure)
evolution of (W. James), 101
“feeling mind” (W. James), 115
as organ, 56
as “organic agent” (Emerson), 67
as photographic plate (Tyndall), 159
as pragma (W. James), 100
as “thought-secreting organ” (Darwin), 105
Moll, Elsie, 189,191
Momigliano, Arnaldo, 271n.59
Montaigne, Michel de, 50
More, Henry, 33,65
Munsterberg, Hugo, 19,234
mutation, 201,250
and Edwards’s style, 39
and Emerson’s style, 79
engine of evolution, 40
“Experience is in . . . ,” 12
and “imperfect replication,” 15
and poetic form (Stevens), 22
and thinking, 8
of thought (Hacking), 215
of utterance (Edwards), 39
Myers, Gerald, 100
natural selection, 40,83,96,121,241
ideational (Emerson), 67
Naturphilosophie, and Emerson, 68
Necker, L. A. (Necker cube), 202
Needham, Joseph, 252
neuroscience, 107
Newton, Sir Isaac, 72,86,108
“crucial experiment”of, 26
on light, 65,76
hypothesizing wave–particle property of 69
Opticks, 5,14,24–5,35
see also Edwards, Jonathan
Nicolson, Marjorie, 32
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 98,110
occasion
and Edwards, 55
and Whitehead, 10,182,202,257n.35
Oegger, Guillaume, 268n.4
Opticks, see Newton, Sir Isaac
Organismus (Goethe)
and Emerson, 68
and Stevens, 189
Ospovat, Dov, 253n.6,272n.81
Owen, Richard, 72,252
Packer, Barbara, 258n.49
Pater, Walter, 129
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 63,89,120,123–4,125,129,141,151
common sense for, 224
and Darwin / Darwinian information, 121
and Emerson, 120,121
“firstness” for, 71
“metaboly” for, 226
and “objective evasion of induction” (Hacking), 215
reading Origin, 1–2
reading Poe, 12
and Stevens, 203–4
and Swedenborg, 133
and W. James, 15
see also James, William
performance
and Emerson, 73,89
and Edwards, 48,52
and H. James, 151
language as, 3
and ministerial function, 10–11
participatory, as analogy, 61
of reception (Emerson), 112
of recursiveness, 43
(Stevens)
of text (Edwards), 59
verbal, and religious experience, 104
philology, comparative, 84,90,96
phototropism, 135
of ideas (Emerson), 81
phyllotaxis, and spiralling forms, 32
Planck, Max, 22,180
Plato, 66,84,181
idealism of, 115
“Cratylus,” 227
“Phaedrus,” 169
pleasure, 89,105,112
and appetite and aesthetic choices, 6–7
and balancing (equations), 27
and Darwin, 87
and Emerson, 63,244
and H. James, 157
nature of, 225,231
preparation for, 227
as prime motive of life (Darwin), 220
Poe, Edgar Allan, 12
Poirier, Richard, 12,110,141,240,254n.8,279n.57
polarity, 89,103
and asymmetry and light, 218
and crystal growth, 72,76
and Emerson, 65
and Emerson’s style, 78,96
polarization, 117,128
Posnock, Ross, 125,132,133,140,141,156,276n.16
Powers, Richard, 298n.2
pragma, 10,96,100,208,244
Pragmatism (Jamesian), 99,107
and the aesthetic, 12
development of, 122
as evolved from Puritan form of thinking, 1–2
inflected by radical empiricism, 1
master-plan of (Peirce), 124
method of, 56,127
as moral activity, 149
as “old wine in new bottles,” 150
as secular morality, 140
as self-reflexive theorizing, 135
and Stein, 245
and Stevens, 21,210
and “Truth happens to an idea,” 42
Pragmatism, A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, 17. See also James, William
Prickett, Stephen, 41
The Principles of Geology, see Lyell, Charles
The Principles of Psychology, see James, William
probability
emergence of (Hacking), 214
and theory of evolution (Darwin), 120
psychology, and H. James, 159
quantum mechanics, 131
quantum theory, 184
“new,” 205–6
and Stevens, 22
and “vibrations,” 214
Quetelet, Adolphe, 89
Ransom, John Crowe, 187
recursiveness, 40,43,135
Reed, Sampson, 269n.39
Reformation, The, 9,11,12,50,86,112,200,249
project of, 150
religious debate surrounding and Holbein, 154
and W. James, 251
work of, 149
relation/s, 86,95,96
between, 110,225
between fact and feeling, 2
“between relations” (Clark), 147
between words and perception (Locke), 9
between work of God and nature (Edwards), 39
“doctrine of” (W. James), 278n.41
and Edwards, 55
and Emerson, 63,64,161
of feeling, thinking, and desiring (Stevens), 219
and Heisenberg, 207
of linguistic signs, 146
of matter to spirit (Edwards), 38
new, and external representation (Clark), 150
new, between words (Hacking), 215
“original relation to the universe” (Emerson), 12
of protein molecules and neurons, 238
reciprocal, of perception and linguistic transcription, 233
“stop nowhere” (H. James), 89
of sun’s light and elements, 45
of thoughts and language (W. James), 177–8
and W. James, 101,105,175–6
(sense of, as feeling, W. James), 249
of whole to part as bodily event (Whitehead), 228
spatio-temporal and musical scale, 227
repetition
in Bible, 42
“continuous” (Stein), 249
and crystal growth, 69
and Edwards, 35,38
(as “creation”), 41,50,52,57,58
and Emerson, 76
and fluency in language, 27
and inhibitory process of brain activity, 31
and mapping, 227
neuronal effects of (W. James), 27–9,146
and Stevens, 202
and variation (Edwards), 39
and variation (Stein), 248
and variation (Stevens), 201
and variation as motive of evolutionary change, 39
replication, imperfect, 15,40,43,65,112,144,194,202,217
Retallack, Joan, 233,247–8
Rice, William, 233
Richards, I. A., 157
Richardson, Alan, 266n.81
Richardson, Joan, 271n.66
Richardson, Robert, 80,258n.49,270n.40
Rizzolatti, Giacomo, 71
RNA (ribonucleic acid), and DNA information transfer, 31,79,115,202,227
“room of the idea,” as conceptual/linguistic space, 4,5
Rorty, Richard, 12,257–8n.43,265n.62,277n.16
Rudwick, Martin, 83
Sacks, Oliver, 159,288n.69
Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy, 134
Sandeman, Robert, 118
Santayana, George, 132,190
Schleiden, Matthias Jacob, 69
Schrodinger, Erwin, 206,213
Sedgwick, Adam, 90
self-identity/imitation, law of and DNA–RNA information transfer, 115
Selfridge, Oliver, 87
semiotike, 52. See also Locke, John
“sense of the heart,” see Edwards, Jonathan
Sepper, Dennis, 26
Shakespeare, William, 2,65
Skarda, Christine, 298n.206
spiralling, as physical and aesthetic structuring principle, 31,34,40,199–201,218,229
Stafford, Barbara Maria, 45
Stein, Gertrude
and the aesthetic, 252
and radical empiricism, 238
and W. James, 19,234,245,246
Everybody’s Autobiography, 243
The Geographical History of America, 248
The Gradual Making of “The Making of Americans”, 237
The Making of Americans, 20,232,245
“Patriarchal Poetry” 234
Three Lives, 20,242–3,245,246–7
Stein, Leo, 235
Stein, Michael, 234
Stevens, Garrett, Sr., 203–4
Stevens, Wallace, 43,89
and the aesthetic, 188
and aurora borealis, 212
and belief, 185
and Bohr, 22,204–6,208–9
conversion for, 193,197
and death of Satan, 169
and Einstein’s discoveries, 22,183,211
and Elsie Moll, 189,191
and Emerson, 21,187,200
and Emerson’s “Divinity School Address,” 193,194–6,197,199
and “facture,” 182,200,208,221
“feeling for words,” 198
“fiction,” 22
Stevens, Wallace (cont.)
and Goethe, 200
and Haeckel, 200
and Heisenberg, 22,186,204
“irrational element,” 4
and language, 21
and light, 183–4
and Mallarme, 22,229
and musicality, 218–23
and Organismus, 189
and Peirce, 203–4
and Planck, 22,180,204
“poetry of the subject,” 4,5,197
and Psalms (Book of), 192,199,200–1,204
and quantum theory, 22,206
“satisfactions of belief,” 188,191,199
snow as metaphor for, 216,217–18
and Stein, 20
style of, 201
style of and spiralling, 199–201
and thinking as evolving form, 21
“true subject,” 4,5,197
and “vibration/s,” 198,211
and W. James, 187,190,207,218
and Whitehead, 181,182
word use as “critical opalescence,” 211
“The Auroras of Autumn,” 212
“The Comedian as the Letter C,” 21,200
The Irrational Element in Poetry, 196–9,216
“The Man with the Blue Guitar,” 196
“An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,” 208,210–13
“Peter Quince at the Clavier,” 218–23,227
“The Snow Man,” 217
“Sunday Morning,” 191,192–3
style, 41,58,121
common features in Edwards and Emerson, 42
of Edwards, 39
as homeostatic adjustment, 40–1
“new intellectual” necessary after Origin, 122
“plain style,” 257n.39
of Stevens, 199–201
subject–predicate scheme, 3
breakdown of, 4,6,8,9,47
superposition/s, 186,211
and wave activity of thinking, 131
Suzuki, D. T., 273n.112
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 93,133,137,152,218
and Balzac, 19,166,168–9
as “Buddha of the North” (Louis Lambert), 167
and crystal analogy, 72,75–6
and crystallography, 17
and Emerson’s reading of, 14,72–3,75–7
and H. James, 165
and H. James Sr., 112–13
and W. James, 17,73,173
Apocalypse Revealed, 165
Heaven and Hell (and H. James), 138–9
see also Emerson, Ralph Waldo
James, Henry, Sr.
James, Henry
James, William
Taves, Ann, 58,264n.53,276n.15
teleology, 12,81,226
theory of neuronal group selection (TNGS), 125. See also Edelman, Gerald M.
thinking
evolution of, 6
as evolving form (and Stevens), 21
as life form, 8
W. James on, 7,17
Thoreau, Henry David, 12,80
Three Lives, see Stein, Gertrude
Tiffany, Daniel, 216–17,218
Tintner, Adeline, 19,142–3
Tufts, James H., 260n.4
Tyndall, John, 82,84,126,128–9,159
typology, ix,43,86
and Edwards, 27,30,32,36,47,51,52,261n.14
and Emerson, 43
naturalized (Stevens), 214
and Puritan thinking, 1–2
and repetition, 28
Updike, John, 154
Van Vechten, Carl, 243
variation, 201,226,227
and copying genetic information, 40
of Edwards’s words and phrases, 31
rhythmic (Bateson), 235
and speciation (and Stevens’s style), 223
Varieties of Religious Experience, The, see James, William
vibration/s, 198,211,229
and Bateson, 235
“of organic deformation” (Whitehead), 182,229
and stability in “new” quantum theory, 214
and Stevens, 198,211
“vibratory organism” (Whitehead), 235
“vibratory organisms” as sentences (Whitehead), 238
Vico, Giambattista, 217
Walls, Laura Dassow, 80,258n.49
Watson, James, 69,250,252
wave activity, 117,128
and Emerson (Faraday), 65
and language, 129
neural (W. James), 129
wave forms (Whitehead), 182
wave motion, 89
wave packets, 108,120
wave–particle duality, 181,210,226
as “irrational element” (Bohr), 204
Newton’s anticipation of, 69
wave theory, 118
and Emerson, 207
waves
firing and neural connections, 127
as superpositions, 131
Wedgwood, Hensleigh, 90–3
Weil, Simone, 298n.206
Weiner, Norbert, 87,229,259n.64
Wells., H. G., 154
Whewell, William, 70
Whitehead, Alfred North, 94,96,100,110,126,144,225,235
and “actual entities,” 7,10
and “appetition and satisfaction,” 7
and “appetition of thought,” 56,67,220
on constitution of self in relation to environment, 6
continuing work of W. James, 7
on embodiment, 9
on emotional energy, 47
“event” for, 263n.41
on feeling/s, 10
on feelings as “vectors,” 164
“identity philosophy” of, 75
and “the ‘idea’ idea,” 257–8n.43
“lures for feeling,” 10
“occasion” for, 10,202,257n.35
(definition)
and Paradise Lost, 84
philosophy of organism, 56,67,71,253n.4
and “prehension,” 37, 75, 249, 263n.41 (definition)
relation of whole to part (“bodily event”), 228
and Stevens, 181
and “stubborn fact,” 10,202–3,275n.7
on subject–predicate scheme shift, 4,8
“vector feeling-tone,” 227
vibration – “vibratory organism/s,” 235,238
and wave forms, 182
The Function of Reason, 254n.11
Process and Reality, 1,220,255n.14
Science and the Modern World, 181
Whitman, Walt, 12
will
and brain activity, 31
Chauncey Wright on, 122
and Edwards, 31,34,60
free (Jacques Loeb), 135
in Louis Lambert, 168
and W. James, 151,174–5
Williams, Raymond, 79,220
Williams, William Carlos, 205,242
Wilson, Edmund, 232,243
Wilson, Eric, 258n.49
Wilson, John F., 41,58,263n.49
Wright, Chauncey, 17,122
Zeki, Semir, 226
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