An Ethical Ideal? Louise Rosenblatt and Democracy—A Personalist Reconsideration

Louise Rosenblatt’s theory of literary experience was a landmark in twentieth-century contributions to aesthetics, pedagogy, and literary theory. Her work is consistently studied, although critical re-evaluations have waned in the past ten years or so. This essay turns to Rosenblatt’s political comm...

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Main Author:	Richard Vytniorgu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2018-03-01
Series:	Humanities
Subjects:	Louise Rosenblatt personalism democracy phantasm Berdyaev ethics literary imagination Maxine Greene
Online Access:	http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/7/2/29

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spelling	doaj-b095aa60bffd48ecbd8ddab21ef76f552020-11-24T23:38:18ZengMDPI AGHumanities2076-07872018-03-01722910.3390/h7020029h7020029An Ethical Ideal? Louise Rosenblatt and Democracy—A Personalist ReconsiderationRichard Vytniorgu0Department of English, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UKLouise Rosenblatt’s theory of literary experience was a landmark in twentieth-century contributions to aesthetics, pedagogy, and literary theory. Her work is consistently studied, although critical re-evaluations have waned in the past ten years or so. This essay turns to Rosenblatt’s political commitment to democracy and argues that in her writing, her politics are in conflict with her more personalist sympathies concerning the value of the human being. I draw on the philosophy of personalism to show how Rosenblatt’s writing on imagination offers a more congenial framework for thinking about building harmonious human relations.http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/7/2/29Louise RosenblattpersonalismdemocracyphantasmBerdyaevethicsliterary imaginationMaxine Greene
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description	Louise Rosenblatt’s theory of literary experience was a landmark in twentieth-century contributions to aesthetics, pedagogy, and literary theory. Her work is consistently studied, although critical re-evaluations have waned in the past ten years or so. This essay turns to Rosenblatt’s political commitment to democracy and argues that in her writing, her politics are in conflict with her more personalist sympathies concerning the value of the human being. I draw on the philosophy of personalism to show how Rosenblatt’s writing on imagination offers a more congenial framework for thinking about building harmonious human relations.
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An Ethical Ideal? Louise Rosenblatt and Democracy—A Personalist Reconsideration

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