Romanticism and pragmatism : Richard Rorty and the idea of a poeticized culture /: Richard Rorty and the idea of a poeticized culture. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ulf Schulenberg, visiting chair of American Studies, University of Siegen, Germany.
• Authors: Schulenberg, Ulf, 1966-
• 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; Notes; Bibliography
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Subjects: 191; Semiotics & Theory; Pragmatism in literature; Romanticism; American literature -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism; Poetry; Movements/Analytic; American/General; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Literature & literary studies; Philosophy; Western philosophy, from c 1900; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137474209; 1137474203
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