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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Form -- 2 "We Have No Duties to Anything Nonhuman": Richard Rorty's Anti-Authoritarianism -- 3 Pragmatism, Humanism, and Form -- 4 "… and the Practice Has to Speak for Itself": Wittgenstein, Pragmatism, and Anti-Authoritarianism -- 5 Marxism, Form, and the Negation of Aesthetic Synthesis -- 6 "Nothing Is Known-Only Realized": Postcritique, Bruno Latour, and the Idea of a Positive Aesthetics -- 7 "I Turned to the Poets": Humanist Stories of Progress -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Intro -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 1: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Pragmatists -- Chapter 1: "Only We Have Created the World that Concerns Man !": Nietzsche, Naturalism, and the Idea of Creativity -- 1.1 Nietzsche's Naturalism -- 1.2 Nietzsche's Philosophy of Creativity -- 1.3 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: "The Humanistic State of Mind": James and Nietzsche -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Knowing Is Doing, Knowing Is Creating: Dewey and Nietzsche -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: "But the Answer to a Great Poem Is a Still Better Poem": Rorty and Nietzsche -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Naturalizing Kant?: Constructivism and Pragmatism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 2: Pragmatism, Poetic Agency, and Race -- Chapter 6: "This Craving, this Urge for Beauty": The Female Black Dandy in Nella Larsen's Quicksand -- 6.1 Dandyism -- 6.2 Quicksand -- 6.3 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: "Ah Wants tuh Utilize Mahself All Over": Poetic Agency in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God -- 7.1 Race, Individualism, and Practice -- 7.2 Self-Creation -- 7.3 Work and Play (and a Bit of Religion) -- 7.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part 3: Theoretical Encounters -- Chapter 8: Pragmatism, Marxism, and Humanism -- 8.1 Pragmatism, Romanticism, and Humanism -- 8.2 Marxism, Humanism, and Poetic Agency -- 8.3 Pragmatism, Marxism, and the Black Aesthete -- 8.4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: "All Anybody Ever Does with Anything Is Use It": Edward Said, Richard Rorty, and the Task of Humanist Criticism -- 9.1 Said's Humanism, Poeisis, and Cognition.

"Romanticism and Pragmatism offers a new and original perspective by elucidating how pragmatism, humanism, anti-authoritarianism, and postmetaphysics are linked and is the first monograph to offer a detailed discussion of Richard Rorty's idea of a literary or poeticized culture. It argues that pragmatism's use of Romanticism is an integral part of a modern antifoundationalist story of progress, and that it can help us appreciate the significance of Romanticism in the twenty-first century. It also analyses the relation between pragmatism and race (and cosmopolitanism), and approaches the question of a pragmatist literary ethics"--