Marxism, Pragmatism, and Narrative

[...]the present essay shows that a discussion of the relation between Marxism and pragmatism that focuses on the dialectics of narrative and totality is of contemporary significance since it can help one to grasp fully the implications of the notion of a postmetaphysical or poeticized culture.5 Undoubtedly, Marxists like Lukács and Jameson have helped prepare the establishment of this kind of culture. Making his readers appreciate how pragmatism, humanism, anti-authoritarianism, and postmetaphysics hang together, Rorty's story of progress and intelligent action depicts a process of emancipation and secularization that radically questions traditions and traditional forms of authority and, moreover, insists on the importance of human creativity and poetic imagination for a reconstructed philosophy and worldly practice.