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The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought

The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought

White, Ryan

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0231171005
ISBN13: 9780231171007
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Aug 18 2015
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 pragmatism closer to contemporary critical theory.

Ryan White 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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