{"product_id":"9798216443704","title":"Poetic Pragmatism Richard Rorty, Literature, and Pragmatist Aesthetics","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePoetic Pragmatism\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eRichard Rorty, Literature, and Pragmatist Aesthetics\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eUlf Schulenberg\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Comparative Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first detailed discussion of Richard Rorty's understanding of literature and aesthetics, which engages with a broad range of writers, including Emerson, Nietzsche, and Proust.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor most of his career, at least since the publication of \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy and the Mirror of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e in 1979, Richard Rorty called his readers' attention to the importance of the poet's work. Indeed, Ulf Schulenberg argues that Rorty's version of pragmatism should be regarded as a poetic pragmatism, since it elucidates the significance of poetic agency, human creativity, and idiosyncratic acts of \u003ci\u003epoiesis\u003c\/i\u003e for the development of mankind, constantly stressing – in a clearly Romantic gesture – the power of the imagination. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetic Pragmatism\u003c\/i\u003e explains why one should speak of Rorty's \u003ci\u003epoetic\u003c\/i\u003e pragmatism and what makes it poetic. In readings of writers such as Whitman, Nietzsche, Nabokov, and Kundera through and alongside Rorty, Schulenberg also offers the first detailed discussion of Rorty's understanding of literature and aesthetics and illuminates the role of Rorty's anti-authoritarianism, focusing in particular on the anti-authoritarian potential of aesthetic form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetic Pragmatism \u003c\/i\u003esuggests that in a Rortyan poeticized culture the development from religion (God) to philosophy (Truth) to literature (imagination, novelty, plurality, redescription) is an anti-authoritarian and humanist story of increasing self-reliance and self-creation, a development from finding to making that is central to Rorty's pragmatism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eUlf Schulenberg\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany. He has published widely in literary and cultural theory, aesthetics, and American and European intellectual history, and his publications include \u003ci\u003eLovers and Knowers: Moments of the American Cultural Left\u003c\/i\u003e (2007); \u003ci\u003eMarxism, Pragmatism and Postmetaphysics: From Finding to Making\u003c\/i\u003e (2019); \u003ci\u003ePragmatism and Poetic Agency: The Persistence of Humanism\u003c\/i\u003e (2021); and \u003ci\u003eHumanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics: Pragmatist Stories of Progress\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2023).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e12 November 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798216443704\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e288\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51669719384204,"sku":"9798216443704","price":108.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_e133b55c-504d-47e5-bd59-5ca5e5634a85.jpg?v=1785203671","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9798216443704","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}