TY - GEN AU - Albrecht,James M. TI - Reconstructing individualism: a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison T2 - American philosophy PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Emerson, Ralph Waldo, KW - James, William, KW - Dewey, John, KW - Ellison, Ralph KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - United States KW - History KW - Philosophy, American KW - Literature and society KW - Individualism KW - Individualism in literature KW - Pragmatism in literature N1 - 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 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb31297 ER -