Romanticism and Pragmatism

1. Introduction
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Part I. Pragmatism and the Idea of a Literary or Poeticized Culture

2. F.C.S. Schiller: Pragmatism, Humanism, and Postmetaphysics
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3. Richard Rorty’s Notion of a Poeticized Culture
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4. Roland Barthes, Marcel Proust, and the “désir d’écrire”
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Part II. From Finding to Making: Pragmatism and Romanticism

5. Books, Rocks, and Sentimental Education: Self-Culture and the Desire for the Really Real in Henry David Thoreau
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6. “Strangle the singers who will not sing you loud and strong”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and the Idea of a Literary Culture
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7. Poets, Partial Stories, and the Earth of Things: William James between Romanticism and Worldliness
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8. John Dewey’s Antifoundationalist Story of Progress
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9. “Toolmakers rather than discoverers”: Richard Rorty’s Reading of Romanticism
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Part III. Ethics, the Novel, and the Private-Public Distinction

10. Resuscitating Ethical Criticism: Martha Nussbaum and the Moral Significance of the Novel
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11. John Dewey and the Moral Imagination
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12. “Redemption from Egotism”: Richard Rorty, the Private-Public Distinction, and the Novel
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13. “Soucie-toi de toi-même”: Michel Foucault and Etho-Poetics
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Part IV. Pragmatism, Race, and Cosmopolitanism

14. “The myth-men are going”: Richard Wright, Communism, and Cosmopolitan Humanism
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15. “Where the people can sing, the poet can live”: James Baldwin, Pragmatism, and Cosmopolitan Humanism
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Part V. Conclusion

16. Conclusion
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Avainsanat: Literature, North American Literature, Analytic Philosophy, Poetry and Poetics, Philosophy, general, Fiction, Modern Philosophy