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Romanticism and Pragmatism

Richard Rorty and the Idea of a Poeticized Culture

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Pragmatism and the Idea of a Literary or Poeticized Culture

  3. Ethics, the Novel, and the Private-Public Distinction

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About this book

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 Rorty.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Siegen, Germany

    Ulf Schulenberg

About the author

Ulf Schulenberg is a Visiting Professor of American Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany. He is the author of Zwischen Realismus und Avantgarde: Drei Paradigmen für die Aporien des Entweder-Oder (2000) and Lovers and Knowers: Moments of the American Cultural Left (2007), as well as the co-editor of Americanization-Globalization-Education (2003). He has published widely in the fields of literary and cultural theory, American studies, and American and European intellectual history.

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