Format:
1 online resource (177 pages)
ISBN:
9780231539593
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9780231171007
Content:
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 extends the parameters of intellectual history to bring American pragmatism closer to contemporary critical theory. The study reads the writings of key American philosophers, including Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, and Charles Sanders Peirce, against modern theoretical works by Niklas Luhmann, Richard Rorty, Jacques Derrida, Sharon Cameron, Cary Wolfe, and Gregory Bateson. This juxtaposition isolates the distinctly posthumanist form of pragmatism that began to arise in these early texts, challenging the accepted genealogy of pragmatic discourse and common definitions of posthumanist critique. Its rigorously theoretical perspective has wide implications for humanities research, enriching investigations into literature, history, politics, and art
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Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe White, Ryan The Hidden God : Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Pragmatismus
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Kritische Theorie
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Posthumanismus
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