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Romanticism and pragmatism : Richard Rorty and the idea of a poeticized culture
- Title
- Romanticism and pragmatism : Richard Rorty and the idea of a poeticized culture / Ulf Schulenberg, Visiting Chair of American Studies, University of Siegen, Germany.
- Author
- Schulenberg, Ulf, 1966-
- Publication
- Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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- Description
- vii, 251 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Romanticism and Pragmatism offers a new and original perspective by elucidating how pragmatism, humanism, anti-authoritarianism, and postmetaphysics are linked and is the first monograph to offer a detailed discussion of Richard Rorty's idea of a literary or poeticized culture. It argues that pragmatism's use of Romanticism is an integral part of a modern antifoundationalist story of progress, and that it can help us appreciate the significance of Romanticism in the twenty-first century. It also analyses the relation between pragmatism and race (and cosmopolitanism), and approaches the question of a pragmatist literary ethics"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Part I. Pragmatism and the Idea of a Literary or Poeticized Culture: 1. F.C.S. Schiller: Pragmatism, Humanism, and Postmetaphysics; 2. Richard Rorty's Notion of a Poeticized Culture; 3. Roland Barthes, Marcel Proust, and the ''désir d'écrire'' -- Part II. From Finding to Making: Pragmatism and Romanticism: 4. Books, Rocks, and Sentimental Education: Self-Culture and the Desire for the Really Real in Henry David Thoreau; 5. 'Strangle the singers who will not sing you loud and strong': Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and the Idea of a Literary Culture; 6. Poets, Partial Stories, and the Earth of Things: William James between Romanticism and Worldliness; 7. John Dewey's Antifoundationalist Story of Progress; 8. 'Toolmakers rather than discoverers': Richard Rorty's Reading of Romanticism -- Part III. Ethics, the Novel, and the Private-Public Distinction: 9. Resuscitating Ethical Criticism: Martha Nussbaum and the Moral Significance of the Novel; 10. John Dewey and the Moral Imagination; 11. 'Redemption from Egotism': Richard Rorty, the Private-Public Distinction, and the Novel; 12. ''Soucie-toi de toi-même'': Michel Foucault and Etho-Poetics -- Part IV. Pragmatism, Race, and Cosmopolitanism: 13. 'The myth-men are going': Richard Wright, Communism, and Cosmopolitan Humanism; 14. 'Where the people can sing, the poet can live': James Baldwin, Pragmatism, and Cosmopolitan Humanism -- Part V. Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-1350
- ISBN
- 9781137474186 (hardback)
- 1137474181 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2014036780
- 40024730173
- OCLC
- 889175507
- Author
- Schulenberg, Ulf, 1966- author.
- Title
- Romanticism and pragmatism : Richard Rorty and the idea of a poeticized culture / Ulf Schulenberg, Visiting Chair of American Studies, University of Siegen, Germany.
- Publisher
- Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40024730173
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-1350