Viale, Claudio Marcelo2018-04-092018-04-092015http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/14614/pdfEn este trabajo, sostengo que la concepción de religión de William James está escindida entre lo que podría denominarse su voluntarismo y su idea de selfsurrender. El voluntarismo jamesiano es la médula de The Will to Believe, mientras que la idea de self-surrender es, en mi interpretación, la clave para entender The Varieties of Religious Experience. La voluntad y Las variedades responden, a mi juicio, a una tensión jamesiana y pueden ser vistos como proyectos intelectuales antagónicos. El análisis de esta tensión interna a la concepción de religión de James es el núcleo de mi artículo. Sostengo, además, que la noción jamesiana deself-surrender, a diferencia del voluntarismo, nos permite visualizar un aspecto imprescindible de la concepción de James, esto es, su aspecto mórbido.In this work I hold that William James’s conception of religion is divided between what could be identified as his voluntarism and his idea of self-surrender. In my approach, James’s voluntarism is the heart of The Will to Believe, whereas the idea of self-surrender is the key to understand The Varieties of Religious Experience. These two works respond to a tension in James’s philosophy and canbe seen as two antagonistic intellectual projects. The analysis of this inner tension in James’s conception of religion is the core of this paper. I will also state that his self-surrender notion, unlike his voluntarism, allows us to visualize an essential aspect of James’s conception, that is to say, its morbid aspect.application/pdfspainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#6.03.01https://doi.org/10.18800/arete.201502.003