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Reconstructing individualism a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison

Title
Reconstructing individualism [electronic resource] : a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison / James M. Albrecht.
Author
Albrecht, James M.
Publication
New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

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American Council of Learned Societies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org
Description
xii, 376 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
American philosophy
Uniform Title
  • American philosophy series (Unnumbered)
  • Fordham American philosophy.
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject
  • 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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic text and image data.
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.
OCLC
(dli)HEB31297
Author
Albrecht, James M.
Title
Reconstructing individualism [electronic resource] : a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison / James M. Albrecht.
Imprint
New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Series
American philosophy
American philosophy series (Unnumbered)
Fordham American philosophy.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction
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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Added Author
American Council of Learned Societies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
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Original 9780823242092 (DLC) 2011042862
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