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Note biographique

Ulf Schulenberg teaches American studies at the University of Bremen, Germany. He is the 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), and Romanticism and Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the Idea of a Poeticized Culture (2015), as well as the coeditor of Americanization-Globalization-Education (2003) and a special issue on American Rock Journalism (2017). He has published widely in the fields of literary and cultural theory, American and European intellectual history, and American studies.

Fonctionnalité

Argues that Marxism and pragmatism are not incompatible

Brings together literary studies, philosophy, and (American and European) intellectual history

Demonstrates that if we seek to continue the unfinished project of establishing a genuinely postmetaphysical culture, the attempt to highlight the dialectics of Marxism and pragmatism is a good starting point

Table des matières

1. Introduction.- 2. Early Encounters: Sidney Hook, Richard J. Bernstein, and George Novak.- 3. Resuscitating Georg Lukács: Form, Metaphysics, and the Idea of a New Realism.- 4. "Kunst hat soviel Chance wie die Form": Theodor W. Adorno and the Idea of a Poeticized Culture.- 5. "This morning I read as angels read": Self-Creation, Aesthetics, and the Crisis of Black Politics in W.E.B. Du Bois's Dark Princess.- 6. Marxism, Pragmatism, and Narrative.- 7. Marxism, Pragmatism, and Postcritique.- 8. From Finding to Making: Jacques Rancière, Richard Rorty, and the Antifoundationalist Story of Progress.- 9. Stories of Emancipation and the Idea of Creative Praxis: Karl Marx and John Dewey.- 10. Conclusion.

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