Reconstructing individualism a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison /
Albrecht, James M.
Reconstructing individualism a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison / [electronic resource] : James M. Albrecht. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2012. - xii, 376 p. ; 24 cm. - American philosophy . - American philosophy series (Unnumbered) Fordham American philosophy. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
2027/heb31297 hdl
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 --Philosophy.
James, William, 1842-1910 --Philosophy.
Dewey, John, 1859-1952 --Philosophy.
Ellison, Ralph--Philosophy.
--19th century.--20th century.--United States.--History.--United States
Philosophy, American Philosophy, American Literature and society Individualism Individualism in literature. Pragmatism in literature.
Reconstructing individualism a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison / [electronic resource] : James M. Albrecht. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2012. - xii, 376 p. ; 24 cm. - American philosophy . - American philosophy series (Unnumbered) Fordham American philosophy. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
2027/heb31297 hdl
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 --Philosophy.
James, William, 1842-1910 --Philosophy.
Dewey, John, 1859-1952 --Philosophy.
Ellison, Ralph--Philosophy.
--19th century.--20th century.--United States.--History.--United States
Philosophy, American Philosophy, American Literature and society Individualism Individualism in literature. Pragmatism in literature.