Romanticism and Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the Idea of a Poeticized Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
F.C.S. Schiller: Pragmatism, Humanism, and Postmetaphysics....Pages 19-30
Richard Rorty’s Notion of a Poeticized Culture....Pages 31-41
Roland Barthes, Marcel Proust, and the “désir d’écrire”....Pages 42-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
Books, Rocks, and Sentimental Education: Self-Culture and the Desire for the Really Real in Henry David Thoreau....Pages 65-79
“Strangle the singers who will not sing you loud and strong”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and the Idea of a Literary Culture....Pages 80-92
Poets, Partial Stories, and the Earth of Things: William James between Romanticism and Worldliness....Pages 93-105
John Dewey’s Antifoundationalist Story of Progress....Pages 106-119
“Toolmakers rather than discoverers”: Richard Rorty’s Reading of Romanticism....Pages 120-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-137
Resuscitating Ethical Criticism: Martha Nussbaum and the Moral Significance of the Novel....Pages 139-144
John Dewey and the Moral Imagination....Pages 145-153
“Redemption from Egotism”: Richard Rorty, the Private-Public Distinction, and the Novel....Pages 154-168
“Soucie-toi de toi-même”: Michel Foucault and Etho-Poetics....Pages 169-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-177
“The myth-men are going”: Richard Wright, Communism, and Cosmopolitan Humanism....Pages 179-195
“Where the people can sing, the poet can live”: James Baldwin, Pragmatism, and Cosmopolitan Humanism....Pages 196-208
Conclusion....Pages 209-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-251