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Book SynopsisThis book is an examination of three major literary, critical and philosophical movements in European and Anglo--American literature. It aims to show their differences (often pointed out) and their similarities (never yet demonstrated) and to make accessible recent post--structuralist theory.
Table of ContentsPreface.
Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations.
Part I: Romantic and Germanic Backgrounds:.
1. Shelley and Nietzsche: Reality as Rhetoric.
2. The German Romantic Ironists and Hegel.
3. Johnson, Coleridge and Method.
Part II: Deconstructing Metaphysics:.
4. William James and Early Pragmatist Rejections of Metaphysics.
5. John Dewey's Critique of Traditional Philosophizing.
6. Jacques Derrida: Deconstructing Metaphysics.
7. Coleridge's Attack on Dualism.
Part III: Art as Experience:.
8. John Dewey: Language Reconceptualized.
9. Dewey's 'Romantic' Aesthetic.
10. Derrida, Textuality, and Criticism.
Conclusion: The 'New' Historicism.
Afterword.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
