Humanism, anti-authoritarianism, and literary aesthetics : pragmatist stories of progress /
This book presents pragmatist humanism as a form of anti-authoritarianism and sheds light on the contemporary significance of pragmatist aesthetics and the revival of humanism.
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Humanism, anti-authoritarianism, and form
- "We have no duties to anything nonhuman" : Richard Rorty's anti-authoritarianism
- Pragmatism, humanism, and form
- "... and the practice has to speak for itself" : Wittgenstein, pragmatism, and anti-authoritarianism
- Marxism, form, and the negation of aesthetic synthesis
- "Nothing is known-only realized" : postcritique, Bruno Latour, and the idea of a positive aesthetics
- "I turned to the poets" : humanist stories of progress.