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