Reconstructing individualism : a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison /

Reconstructing individualism : a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison / James M. Albrecht.

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"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"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Albrecht, James M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:American philosophy series (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
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.
Table of 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.

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