Albrecht, James M. <br/><br/>
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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<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>2027/heb31297  hdl 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 --Philosophy.<br/>James, William, 1842-1910 --Philosophy.<br/>Dewey, John, 1859-1952 --Philosophy.<br/>Ellison, Ralph--Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--19th century.--20th century.--United States.--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Philosophy, American Philosophy, American Literature and society Individualism Individualism in literature. Pragmatism in literature.