TY  - BOOK
AU  - Albrecht,James M.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Reconstructing individualism: a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison 
T2  - American philosophy
SN  - 9780823246595
AV  - B832 .A345 2012
U1  - 141/.40973 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Ellison, Ralph
KW  - Dewey, John,
KW  - James, William,
KW  - Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism
KW  - Pragmatism in literature
KW  - Individualism in literature
KW  - Individualism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Philosophy, American
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823246595/
ER  -