Consciousness in New England: from Puritanism and ideas to psychoanalysis and semiotic

Abstract

A recognized authority of American intellectual history, James Hoopes concerns himself in this study with the eighteenth and nineteenth-century secularization of Puritanism's philosophical underpinnings... [A]n important book in intellectual history. Those who read it will be challenged; those who understand it will be rewarded.--H. Roger King, History: Reviews of New Books.One of the dozen or so most intriguing books that I have read in the past decade.--Theodore Dwight Bozeman, William and Mary Quarterly.