Romanticism and Pragmatism Richard Rorty and the Idea of a Poeticize
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
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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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Contents Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Part I Pragmatism and the Idea of a Literary or Poeticized Culture
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1 F.C.S. Schiller: Pragmatism, Humanism, and Postmetaphysics
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2 Richard Rorty’s Notion of a Poeticized Culture
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3 Roland Barthes, Marcel Proust, and the “désir d’écrire”
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Part II From Finding to Making: Pragmatism and R
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