The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought - Rilegato

White, Ryan

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ISBN 10: 0231171005 ISBN 13: 9780231171007

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Ryan White is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Rice University. He specializes in American philosophy and pragmatism, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory, and systems theory. He has taught at the University of Kentucky and Austin Community College. His work has been published in several journals, including theJournal of Speculative Philosophy and Arizona Quarterly.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0231171005
• ISBN 13: 9780231171007
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 233