The hidden God : pragmatism and posthumanism in American thought /

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'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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: White, Ryan (Independent researcher) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.
Temas:
Philosophy, American.
Pragmatism.
Critical theory.
Humanism.
Humanism
Philosophie américaine.
Pragmatisme.
Théorie critique.
Humanisme.
pragmatism.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
humanism.
critical theory (sociological concept)
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Critical Theory.
Critical theory
Philosophy, American
Pragmatism
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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