TY  - GEN
AU  -  Albrecht, James M.
ED  -  American Council of Learned Societies.
TI  -  Reconstructing individualism: a pragmat ic tradition from Emerson to Ellison 
T2  -  American philosophy
PY  - 2012///
CY  -  New York
PB  -  Fordham University Press
KW  -  Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
KW  -  James, William,
KW  -  Dewey, John,
KW  -  Ellison, Ralph
KW  -  Philosophy, American
KW  -  19th century
KW  -  20th century
KW  -  Literature and society
KW  -  United States
KW  -  Individualism
KW  -  History
KW  -  Individualism in literature
KW  -  Pragmatism in literature
N1  -  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;  Electronic text and image data;  Ann Arbor, Mich.;  University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing;  2013;  Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text;  ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]);  ([Fordham American philosophy)];  Mode of access: Intranet
UR  -  http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.31297
ER  -