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" Romanticism and pragmatism : "
Ulf Schulenberg, visiting chair of American Studies, University of Siegen, Germany.
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718996
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Ulf Schulenberg, visiting chair of American Studies, University of Siegen, Germany.
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Romanticism and pragmatism : : Richard Rorty and the idea of a poeticized culture\ Ulf Schulenberg, visiting chair of American Studies, University of Siegen, Germany.
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Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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113747419X
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: 1137474203
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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 'ďsir d'̌crire' --;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-m̊me': 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.
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This interdisciplinary project is situated at the boundary between literary studies and philosophy. Its chief focus is on American Romanticism and it examines work by a number of prominent writers and philosophers, from Whitman and Thoreau to Barthes and Rorty.
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Pragmatism in literature.
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Romanticism.
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Rorty, Richard -- Criticism and interpretation.
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B945.R524U447 2015
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Ulf Schulenberg
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