Reconstructing individualism [electronic resource] : a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison / James M. Albrecht.
Material type: TextSeries: American philosophy | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012. 2015)Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (368 p.)ISBN:- 9780823246595
- PHILOSOPHY / Political
- PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism
- Pragmatism in literature
- Individualism in literature
- Individualism -- United States -- History
- Literature and society -- United States
- Philosophy, American -- 20th century
- Philosophy, American -- 19th century
- Ellison, Ralph -- Philosophy
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 -- Philosophy
- James, William, 1842-1910 -- Philosophy
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Philosophy
- 141/.40973 23
- B832 .A345 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"Explores the theories of democratic individualism articulated in the works of the American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, pragmatic philosophers William James and John Dewey, and African-American novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison"-- Provided by publisher.
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