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Reconstructing individualism : a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison /
"America has a love-hate relationship with individualism. In Reconstructing Individualism, James Albrecht argues that our conceptions of individualism have remained trapped within the assumptions of classic liberalism. He traces an alternative genealogy of individualist ethics in four major Ame...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | American philosophy series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.