White The Hidden God

Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53959-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Revisits the origins of American pragmatism and finds a nascent "posthumanist" critique shaping early modern thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Ryan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 the Journal of Speculative Philosophy and Arizona Quarterly.