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This 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 Contents
Preface.

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.

Romanticism Pragmatism and Deconstruction

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 23/09/1993
      ISBN13: 9780631189640, 978-0631189640
      ISBN10: 0631189645
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This 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 Contents
      Preface.

      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.

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