Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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How Do You Know if You Have a Psychic Disorder?
Humanists begin the work of thinking by considering the socially determined objects that are available to them. We know that fire burning three thousand years ago used oxygen to burn, even though the people who were burning that fire didn't know what oxygen was or hav a concept of it. Even something like personality, which we describe as, you know, a set of factors that shape, you know. So why does so and so always end up with guys who treat her badly? A kind of question that one could ask about somebodyit is about trying to describe or name a force that doesn't have a name or a shape, that is none the less shaping someone.
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