- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 376 p.)
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- American philosophy
- Uniform Title
- Reconstructing individualism (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Reconstructing individualism (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2011042862
- OCLC
- ssj0000601772
- 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
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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