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Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics

Pragmatist Stories of Progress

Prof. or Dr. Ulf Schulenberg (University of Bremen, Germany)

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English
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
07 September 2023
Presenting pragmatist humanism as a form of anti-authoritarianism, this book sheds light on the contemporary significance of pragmatist aesthetics and the revival of humanism.

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.

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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
ISBN:   9798765102435
Pages:   256
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Primary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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).

Reviews for Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics: Pragmatist Stories of Progress

In this sprawling and fascinating new book, Ulf Schulenberg argues powerfully that pragmatism, humanism, and anti-authoritarianism all hang together in a coherent, mutually reinforcing whole. The scholarship in this book is impressively wide-ranging. Drawing from a large and diverse cast of authors and thinkers, Schulenberg tells a thought-provoking story about what pragmatism is, and how it can assist in bringing about a more decent, free, and artistically rich human future. * David Rondel, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Nevada, Reno, USA *


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