The Hidden God : : Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought / / Ryan White.
The Hidden God revisits the origins of American pragmatism and finds a nascent "posthumanist" critique shaping early modern thought. By reaching as far back as the Calvinist arguments of the American Puritans and their struggle to know a "hidden God," this book brings American pr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Observing Modernity in America
- 1. The Double Consciousness. American Thought and the Theory of Theory
- 2. Inside-Out. Pragmatism and the Meaning of America
- 3. On True Virtue. Jonathan Edwards and the Ethics of Self-Reference
- 4. Neither Here nor There. Grief and Absence in Emerson’s “Experience”
- 5. Every Language Is Foreign. Self and Cybernetics in the Event-Machine
- 6. The Cybernetic Imaginary. Musement and the Unsaying of Theory
- Notes
- Index