{"product_id":"9798765102442-humanism-anti-authoritarianism-and-literary-aesthetics-pragmatist-stories-of-progress","title":"Humanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePragmatist Stories of Progress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePresenting pragmatist humanism as a form of anti-authoritarianism, this book sheds light on the contemporary significance of pragmatist aesthetics and the revival of humanism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEstablishing a transatlantic theoretical dialogue, \u003ci\u003eHumanism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and Literary Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41729578041441,"sku":"9798765102442","price":28.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26893913.jpg?v=1721332341","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9798765102442-humanism-anti-authoritarianism-and-literary-aesthetics-pragmatist-stories-of-progress","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}