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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schulenberg, Ulf, 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Subjects:
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.