• Reconstructing individualism : a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison
    [NT 47261] Author: AlbrechtJames M,
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: New York
    [NT 47263] Published: Fordham University Press;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: 2012
    [NT 50960] Edition: 1st ed.
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (368 p.).
    [NT 47298] Series: American philosophy
    [NT 47266] Subject: Pragmatism in literature -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Individualism in literature -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Individualism - History - United States -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Literature and society - United States -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Philosophy, American - 20th century -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Philosophy, American - 19th century -
    [NT 51399] Personal Subject: Ellison - Ralph - Philosophy -
    [NT 51399] Personal Subject: Dewey - John - Philosophy -
    [NT 51399] Personal Subject: James - William - Philosophy -
    [NT 51399] Personal Subject: Emerson - Ralph Waldo - Philosophy -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823246595/
    [NT 47265] Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    [NT 51398] 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"--
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780823246595electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780823242092hbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0823242099hbk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: 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
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