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Reconstructing individualism = a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reconstructing individualism/ James M. Albrecht.
Reminder of title:	a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison /
Author:	Albrecht, James M.
Published:	New York :Fordham University Press, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (368 p.).
Subject:	PHILOSOPHY / Political. -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780823246595 (electronic bk.)

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

Reconstructing individualisma pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison /[electronic resource] :James M. Albrecht. - 1st ed. - New York :Fordham University Press,2012. - 1 online resource (368 p.). - American philosophy.

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'spragmatic 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 inthe 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"--

ISBN: 9780823246595 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Personal Names:

879098
Ellison, Ralph
--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

860076
PHILOSOPHY / Political.

LC Class. No.: B832 / .A345 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 141/.40973

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