Romanticism and pragmatism Richard Rorty and the idea of a poeticized culture
"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...
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Basingstoke u.a.
Palgrave Macmillan
2015
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Machine generated contents note: 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. |
| Beschreibung: | VII, 251 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781137474186 |