American Immanence
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Michael S. Hogue
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This is one of the finest integrations of complex streams of American thought that I have read in a long time. Hogue has given us a theopolitical vision of "nature" that is at once philosophically stirring and religiously relevant to the perplexities of our Anthropocene paradox. American Immanence draws upon James, Dewey, Whitehead, and their lineage to make a sophisticated case for pragmatic naturalism. It is elegant, erudite, and morally urgent.
William E. Connolly, author of Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming :
"American immanence," "the fourth trial of democracy," "a bifocal political theology," "the Anthropocene paradox"—with these explosive concepts, Hogue provides us with activist, democratic ways to think and respond to the contemporary tradition. Both drawing and working upon James, Dewey, and Whitehead to come to terms with the contemporary condition, this book inspires and illuminates the democratic Left at the same time. A necessary read today.
Catherine Keller, author of Cloud of the Impossible and On the Mystery:
How at this moment of American precarity can one book combine such precise prophetic timeliness with so vast a conceptual apparatus? How can it remain at once lucidly engaging in its activating rhetoric and philosophically nuanced in its theopolitics? How can it bring home to us the planetary force of anthropocene uncertainty without one bout of apocalyptic hysteria? Read Hogue and learn how!
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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INTRODUCTION
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1. AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM AND THE REDEEMER SYMBOLIC
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2. THE ANTHROPOCENE AND CLIMATE WICKEDNESS
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3. THINKING, FEELING, AND VALUING IMMANENCE
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4. DIVINING IMMANENCE: AMERICAN IMMANENTAL PHILOSOPHIES
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5. TOWARD A THEOPOLITICS OF RESILIENT DEMOCRACY
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Notes
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Bibliography
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