Abstract:This article proposes that the temporality of Jonathan Edwards’s aesthetic projection of himself as simultaneously godly and depraved provides an alternative model of early American selfhood from the secular capitalist paradigm of Benjamin Franklin, championed by Max Weber and perpetuated by Charles Taylor’s account of secular time-consciousness in A Secular Age.
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