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"--
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: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.