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The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought

by Ryan White

  • Hardback
  • 248 pages
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

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For humanities researchers and philosophy fans

Explains links between Puritan and modern theory

Challenges you to rethink how you view history

A fascinating investigation into how American pragmatism and posthumanist ideas influence our modern worldview.

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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 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.

  • Title

    The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought

  • Author

    Ryan White

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Columbia University Press

  • Published

    August 2015

  • Weight

    477g

  • Page Count

    248

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780231171007

  • ISBN-10

    0231171005

  • Eden Code

    4831985