Titlebook: Romanticism and Pragmatism; Richard Rorty and th Ulf Schulenberg Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2

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John Dewey and the Moral Imagination in epistemology, which I discussed in Chapter 7, and the search for firm rules and fixed ideals in morality. These quests in epistemology and morality are a hindrance to human progress and self-realization. Whereas philosophers in the field of epistemology have advanced the idea that without certai

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“The myth-men are going”: Richard Wright, Communism, and Cosmopolitan Humanismical foundationalism, and narrow nationalism. As a black writer from the American South, he moved from Mississippi to Chicago, then to New York, and finally, in 1947, to France, where he died in 1960. Wright’s homelessness, his rootlessness, his self-chosen exile, as well as his later cosmopolitanis

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“Soucie-toi de toi-même”: Michel Foucault and Etho-Poetics In “On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress,” an interview with Paul Rabinow and Hubert Dreyfus, he calls attention to the fact that the arts of existence seem no longer to play any role in today’s society. In a by now famous statement he formulates this as follows:

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F.C.S. Schiller: Pragmatism, Humanism, and Postmetaphysicsmanism is for this kind of culture. On a more general level, one can state that the idea of humanism has played a crucial role for thinkers as different as William James, John Dewey, and Rorty. All three pragmatists, to varying degrees, call attention to the Protagorean idea that man is the measure

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Roland Barthes, Marcel Proust, and the “désir d’écrire” signify a critique of the idea of a system, of the concept of totality, and of the conceptual instrument of dialectics (or sublation), it also calls attention to the desire for the establishment of an antifoundationalist and antiessentialist culture that leaves the individual room for postmetaphysi

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Books, Rocks, and Sentimental Education: Self-Culture and the Desire for the Really Real in Henry Daenaissance. The question that interests me is how one can make the profound differences between Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walt Whitman productive for a discussion of the relationship between pragmatism and Romanticism. We shall see in this chapter and the next that the foundation