Reconstructing individualism : a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison / James M. Albrecht.
- Albrecht, James M
- Date:
- 2012
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- Online
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Publication/Creation
New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Physical description
xii, 376 pages ; 24 cm.
Edition
1st ed.
Contents
Introduction : "Individualism has never been tried": toward a pragmatic individualism -- Pt. 1. Emerson -- What's the use of reading Emerson pragmatically?: the example of William James -- "Let us have worse cotton and better men": Emerson's ethics of self-culture -- Pt. 2. Pragmatism: James and Dewey -- "Moments in the world's salvation": James's pragmatic individualism -- Character and community: Dewey's model of moral selfhood -- "The local is the ultimate universal": Dewey on reconstructing individuality and community -- Pt. 3. A tragic-comic ethics in the Emersonian vein: Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison -- "Saying 'yes' and saying 'no'": individualist ethics in Ellison and Burke.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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- Philosophy, American19th century
- Philosophy, American20th century
- Literature and societyUnited States
- IndividualismUnited StatesHistory
- Individualism in literature
- Pragmatism in literature
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882Philosophy
- James, William, 1842-1910Philosophy
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952Philosophy
- Ellison, RalphPhilosophy