Titlebook: Romanticism and Pragmatism; Richard Rorty and th Ulf Schulenberg Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2

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“Strangle the singers who will not sing you loud and strong”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, andvolutionaries, and the Romantic poets. These heroes of our story were the first to glimpse the enormous power of redescription; that is, they no longer sought to depict things as they really were and they no longer thought of the world and the human self as possessing an intrinsic nature, an essence

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Poets, Partial Stories, and the Earth of Things: William James between Romanticism and Worldlinessords, one wonders what exactly pragmatism has to offer. What is it good for? Seeking to answer this question, one can argue that one ought to see pragmatism as a worldly and oppositional criticism (somewhat in the Saidian sense). William James’s understanding of the worldliness of pragmatism is of t

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Resuscitating Ethical Criticism: Martha Nussbaum and the Moral Significance of the Novelhas to be mentioned in this context, but . (1995) also offers valuable insights. I shall mainly focus on . in my discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of Nussbaum’s approach. Nussbaum ought to be regarded as part of a liberal humanist tradition of literary criticism that reaches back to such im

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John Dewey and the Moral Imaginationinciples when deciding moral questions? Do those laws and principles reflect something of our inner selves? Is it necessary to turn those firm laws and principles into a system, a moral theory, in order to make moral deliberation possible? Does moral theory, moreover, need immutable and indubitable

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“The myth-men are going”: Richard Wright, Communism, and Cosmopolitan Humanismatedly pointed out that Wright was a genuinely protean writer who was influenced by many -isms: naturalism, Marxism, communism, existentialism, Nietzscheanism, partly Freudianism, and cosmopolitanism. What has also been argued is that the quality of his writings differs greatly, from passages that u

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“Where the people can sing, the poet can live”: James Baldwin, Pragmatism, and Cosmopolitan Humanismonsider his impact on black studies, cultural studies, gay and lesbian studies, diaspora studies, and American studies. Or one might feel inclined to contend that his version of a radical humanism is particularly useful for post-identity politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Another