The hidden God : pragmatism and posthumanism in American thought /
'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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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2016
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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