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Reconstructing Individualism : A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison /

"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Albrecht, James M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
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.