Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition From Emerson to Ellison
Fordham University Press (2012)
| Abstract | 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. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Philosophy, American Philosophy, American Literature and society Individualism History Individualism in literature Pragmatism in literature PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism PHILOSOPHY / Political | |||||||||
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| Call number | B832.A345 2012 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 9780823242092 0823242099 | |||||||||
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