The pragmatic Whitman :reimagining American democracy
- 作者: Mack, Stephen John,
- 出版: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press ©2002.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xxii, 182 pages).
- 叢書名: Iowa Whitman series
- 標題: In literature. , Et les États-Unis. , Knowledge , Whitman, Walt, , Political and social views. , Patriotic poetry, American. , États-Unis dans la littérature. , Poésie patriotique américaine Histoire et critique. , Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 Knowledge -- United States. , Political poetry, American , Poésie patriotique américaine , Literature. , Political poetry, American. , Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. , Political poetry, American History and criticism. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Electronic book. , Patriotic poetry, American History and criticism. , Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 Et les États-Unis. , History and criticism. , Poetry. , Poésie politique américaine Histoire et critique. , United States , LITERARY CRITICISM , United States In literature. , Histoire et critique. , Poésie politique américaine , Electronic books. , LITERARY CRITICISM Poetry. , Démocratie dans la littérature. , Democracy in literature. , Pensée politique et sociale. , Patriotic poetry, American , Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 Political and social views. , Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 Pensée politique et sociale. , United States.
- ISBN: 1587294249 , 9781587294242
- ISBN: 0877458227 , 9780877458227
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-178) and index. Part I The metaphysics of democracy: Leaves of Grass, 1855-1856 -- "My voice goes aftr what my eyes can't reach : pragmatic language and the making of a democratic mythology -- "What is less or more than a touch?": sensory experience and the democratic self -- "The simple, cmpact well-join'd scheme": Whitman's democratic cosmos -- "Not chaos or death ... it is form and union and plan": Laissez-faire and the problem of agency -- Part II Crises and Revisions: "Sea-drift," "Calamus," Drum-taps, and sequel to drum-taps, 1859-1867 -- "The most perfect pilot": the problem of desire and the struggle for poetric agency -- "To learn from the crises of anguish": tragedy, history and the meaning of democratic mourning -- Part III Prophet of democracy: democratic vistas, 1871-- "the divine literature comes": religion and poetry in the cultication of democratic selfhood -- conclusion: toward an organic democracy.
- 摘要: In this surprisingly timely book, Stephen Mack examines Whitman's particular and fascinating brand of patriotism: his far-reaching vision of democracy. For Whitman, loyalty to America was loyalty to democracy. Since the idea that democracy is not just a political process but a social and cultural process as well is associated with American pragmatism, Mack relies on the pragmatic tradition of Emerson, James, Dewey, Mead, and Rorty to demonstrate the ways in which Whitman resides in this tradition. Mack analyzes Whitman's democratic vision both in its parts and as a whole; he also describ.
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In this surprisingly timely book, Stephen Mack examines Whitman’s particular and fascinating brand of patriotism: his far-reaching vision of democracy. For Whitman, loyalty to America was loyalty to democracy. Since the idea that democracy is not just a political process but a social and cultural process as well is associated with American pragmatism, Mack relies on the pragmatic tradition of Emerson, James, Dewey, Mead, and Rorty to demonstrate the ways in which Whitman resides in this tradition. Mack analyzes Whitman's democratic vision both in its parts and as a whole; he also describes the ways in which Whitman's vision evolved throughout his career. He argues that Whitman initially viewed democratic values such as individual liberty and democratic processes such as collective decision-making as fundamental, organic principles, free and unregulated. But throughout the 1860s and 1870s Whitman came to realize that democracy entailed processes of human agency that are more deliberate and less natural—that human destiny is largely the product of human effort, and a truly humane society can be shaped only by intelligent human efforts to govern the forces that would otherwise govern us. Mack describes the foundation of Whitman’s democracy as found in the 1855 and 1856 editions of Leaves of Grass, examines the ways in which Whitman’s 1859 sexual crisis and the Civil War transformed his democratic poetics in “Sea-Drift,” “Calamus,” Drum-Taps,and Sequel to Drum-Taps, and explores Whitman’s mature vision in Democratic Vistas, concluding with observations on its moral and political implications today. Throughout, he illuminates Whitman's great achievement—learning that a full appreciation for the complexities of human life meant understanding that liberty can take many different and conflicting forms—and allows us to contemplate the relevance of that achievement at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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