Marxism, Pragmatism, and Postmetaphysics From Finding to Making /

• Main Author: Schulenberg, Ulf (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Metaphysics.; Pragmatism.; Literary Theory.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

'This is the first full-scale engagement between two great intellectual traditions often thought to be antithetical: Marxism and Pragmatism. Focusing on human emancipation and social progress as the common element, Ulf Schulenberg offers an urgent and capacious analysis of how recent and contem...

Table of Contents:

• 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.