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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schulenberg, Ulf

Titel

Humanism, anti-authoritarianism, and literary aesthetics : pragmatist stories of progress

Ort / Verlag

New York : Bloomsbury Academic

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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• Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index
• 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.
• "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"--