Letteratura

The chapter reconstructs the relationship between American pragmatism and literature, understood both in terms of the reciprocal exchanges between literary criticism and the pragmatist philosophical tradition and of the development, within that tradition, of a specifically philosophical reflection on literature. To this end, it focuses in particular on John Dewey, especially on *Art as Experience*; on the literary critic Lionel Trilling and his concept of the novel’s “moral realism”; and, finally, on Richard Rorty, whose interest in literature is examined across the different phases of his work, with particular attention to those writings concerned with the notions of irony and solidarity.