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'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 contemporary debates-from Lukács and Adorno to Jacques Rancière, and from Dewey and Rorty to Richard Bernstein-shape and are shaped by this problematic. Rarely have discussions about post-metaphysical philosophy and aesthetic theory been brought together with such deftness and rigor. In short, this is a field-defining book that no one interested in either tradition, or in critical theory tout court, can afford to ignore.' - Robert Doran, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Rochester, USA 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
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