Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics
Bloomsbury Publishing USA (Verlag)
979-8-7651-0243-5 (ISBN)
This interdisciplinary study shows that a mediation between pragmatist aesthetics – which emphasizes the significance of creating, making, and inventing – and Marxist materialist aesthetics – which values form – promises interesting results and that the former can learn from the latter.
In doing so, Ulf Schulenberg discusses 3 layers of the multi-layered phenomenon that is the revival of humanism: He first explains the potential of a pragmatist humanism, clarifying the contemporary significance of humanism. He then argues that pragmatist humanism is a form of anti-authoritarianism. Finally, he shows the possibility of bringing together the resurgence of humanism and a renewed interest in the work of aesthetic form by arguing that pragmatist aesthetics needs a more complex conception of form.
Establishing a transatlantic theoretical dialogue, Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics brings together literary and aesthetic theory, philosophy, and intellectual history. It discusses a broad range of authors – from Emerson, Whitman, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Dewey to Wittgenstein, Lukács, Adorno, Jameson, Latour, and Rorty – to illuminate how humanism, pragmatism, and anti-authoritarianism are interlinked.
Ulf Schulenberg is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany, and author of Zwischen Realismus und Avantgarde: Drei Paradigmen für die Aporien des Entweder-Oder (2000), Lovers and Knowers: Moments of the American Cultural Left (2007), Romanticism and Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the Idea of a Poeticized Culture (2015), Marxism, Pragmatism, and Postmetaphysics: From Finding to Making (2019), and Pragmatism and Poetic Agency: The Persistence of Humanism (2021).
Introduction
1. Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Form
2. "We have no duties to anything nonhuman": Richard Rorty’s Anti-Authoritarianism
3. Pragmatism, Humanism, and Form
4. "… and the practice has to speak for itself": Wittgenstein, Pragmatism, and Anti-Authoritarianism
5. Marxism, Form, and the Negation of Aesthetic Synthesis
6. "Nothing is known – only realized": Postcritique, Bruno Latour, and the Idea of a Positive Aesthetics
7. "I turned to the poets": Humanist Stories of Progress
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-7651-0243-5 / 9798765102435 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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