Reconstructing individualism [electronic resource] : a pragmat ic tradition from Emerson to Ellison / James M. Albrecht.
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TextSeries: American philosophy | American philosophy series (Unnumbered) | Fordham American philosophy | ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 376 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s): - Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Philosophy
- James, William, 1842-1910 -- Philosophy
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 -- Philosophy
- Ellison, Ralph -- Philosophy
- Philosophy, American -- 19th century
- Philosophy, American -- 20th century
- Literature and society -- United States
- Individualism -- United States -- History
- Individualism in literature
- Pragmatism in literature
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : "Individualism has never been tried": toward a pragma tic individualism -- Pt. 1. Emerson -- What's the use of reading Emerso n pragmatically?: the example of William James -- "Let us have worse co tton and better men": Emerson's ethics of self-culture -- Pt. 2. Pragma tism: James and Dewey -- "Moments in the world's salvation": James's pr agmatic individualism -- Character and community: Dewey's model of mora l selfhood -- "The local is the ultimate universal": Dewey on reconstru cting individuality and community -- Pt. 3. A tragic-comic ethics in th e Emersonian vein: Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison -- "Saying 'yes' and saying 'no'": individualist ethics in Ellison and Burke.
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