:Richard Rorty and the idea of a poeticized culture
/ Ulf Schulenberg, visiting chair of American Studies, University of Siegen, Germany
New Delhi
: Palgrave Macmillan
, 2015.
vii, 251 pages ; 23 cm
Language: انگلیسی
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-245) and index.
"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"--Provided by publisher.