Author: Paul Christopher Johnson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022674986X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers—free will and religion—are in some ways fundamentally opposed. Whereas free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and deliberation, religious practices seem to involve a suspension of or relief from the exercise of our will. What, then, is agency, and why has it occupied such a central place in theories of the human? Automatic Religion explores an unlikely series of episodes from the end of the nineteenth century, when crucial ideas related to automatism and, in a different realm, the study of religion were both being born. Paul Christopher Johnson draws on years of archival and ethnographic research in Brazil and France to explore the crucial boundaries being drawn at the time between humans, “nearhumans,” and automata. As agency came to take on a more central place in the philosophical, moral, and legal traditions of the West, certain classes of people were excluded as less-than-human. Tracking the circulation of ideas across the Atlantic, Johnson tests those boundaries, revealing how they were constructed on largely gendered and racial foundations. In the process, he reanimates one of the most mysterious and yet foundational questions in trans-Atlantic thought: what is agency?
Automatic Religion
Author: Paul Christopher Johnson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022674986X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers—free will and religion—are in some ways fundamentally opposed. Whereas free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and deliberation, religious practices seem to involve a suspension of or relief from the exercise of our will. What, then, is agency, and why has it occupied such a central place in theories of the human? Automatic Religion explores an unlikely series of episodes from the end of the nineteenth century, when crucial ideas related to automatism and, in a different realm, the study of religion were both being born. Paul Christopher Johnson draws on years of archival and ethnographic research in Brazil and France to explore the crucial boundaries being drawn at the time between humans, “nearhumans,” and automata. As agency came to take on a more central place in the philosophical, moral, and legal traditions of the West, certain classes of people were excluded as less-than-human. Tracking the circulation of ideas across the Atlantic, Johnson tests those boundaries, revealing how they were constructed on largely gendered and racial foundations. In the process, he reanimates one of the most mysterious and yet foundational questions in trans-Atlantic thought: what is agency?
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022674986X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
What distinguishes humans from nonhumans? Two common answers—free will and religion—are in some ways fundamentally opposed. Whereas free will enjoys a central place in our ideas of spontaneity, authorship, and deliberation, religious practices seem to involve a suspension of or relief from the exercise of our will. What, then, is agency, and why has it occupied such a central place in theories of the human? Automatic Religion explores an unlikely series of episodes from the end of the nineteenth century, when crucial ideas related to automatism and, in a different realm, the study of religion were both being born. Paul Christopher Johnson draws on years of archival and ethnographic research in Brazil and France to explore the crucial boundaries being drawn at the time between humans, “nearhumans,” and automata. As agency came to take on a more central place in the philosophical, moral, and legal traditions of the West, certain classes of people were excluded as less-than-human. Tracking the circulation of ideas across the Atlantic, Johnson tests those boundaries, revealing how they were constructed on largely gendered and racial foundations. In the process, he reanimates one of the most mysterious and yet foundational questions in trans-Atlantic thought: what is agency?
Automatic Crash Protection Standards
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance
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Category : Air bag restraint systems
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
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Category : Air bag restraint systems
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Economic and Efficient Use of Automatic Data Processing Equipment
Author: United States. Congress. House. Government Operations
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Economic and Efficient Use of Automatic Data Processing Equipment
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities Subcommittee
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Category : Electronic data processing
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Includes Bureau of Budget Circular No. A-54 "Policies on Selection and Acquisition of Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Equipment" Oct. 14, 1961 (p. 31-163).
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Category : Electronic data processing
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Includes Bureau of Budget Circular No. A-54 "Policies on Selection and Acquisition of Automatic Data Processing (ADP) Equipment" Oct. 14, 1961 (p. 31-163).
Electric Utility Automatic Fuel Adjustment Clauses
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
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Category : Electric utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
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Category : Electric utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Automatic Data Processing Equipment
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities Subcommittee
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Category : Electronic apparatus and appliances
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Considers H.R. 4845, to coordinate Federal ADP purchases, leases, and maintenance through GSA. Appendix contains Bureau of Budget report "Automatic Data Processing Responsibilities" (Sept. 1958-June 1959. 567-614 p.)
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Category : Electronic apparatus and appliances
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Considers H.R. 4845, to coordinate Federal ADP purchases, leases, and maintenance through GSA. Appendix contains Bureau of Budget report "Automatic Data Processing Responsibilities" (Sept. 1958-June 1959. 567-614 p.)
Automatic Feeding Equipment for Livestock and Poultry
Author: Hoyle B. Puckett
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Category : Animal feeding
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category : Animal feeding
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Automatic Adjustment Clauses in Public Utility Rate Schedules
Author: United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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Category : Electric utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Category : Electric utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Automatic Digital Switching Technician (AFSC 29570): Automated telecommunications systems (ATSs)
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Category : Photography, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
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Category : Photography, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
An Assessment of Automatic Sewer Flow Samplers - 1975
Author: Philip E. Shelley
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Category : Automatic control
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Publisher:
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Category : Automatic control
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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