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Reconstructing individualism: a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison
James M. Albrecht-
Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Introduction. "Individualism Has Never Been Tried": Toward a Pragmatic Individualism (page 1)
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PART I. EMERSON
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1 What's the Use of Reading Emerson Pragmatically?: The Example of William Jones (page 25)
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2 "Let Us Have Worse Cotton and Better Men": Emerson's Ethics of Self-Culture (page 53)
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PART II. PRAGMATISM: JAMES AND DEWEY
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3 Moments in the World's Salvation: James's Pragmatic Individualism (page 127)
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4 Character and Community: Dewey's Model of Moral Selfhood (page 191)
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5 "The Local Is the Ultimate Universal": Dewey on Reconstructing Individuality and Communtiy (page 244)
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PART III. A TRAGICOMIC ETHICS IN THE EMERSONIAN VEIN: KENNETH BURKE AND RALPH ELLISON
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6 Saying Yes and Saying No: Individualist Ethics in Ellison and Burke (page 281)
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Notes (page 311)
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Index (page 371)
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Published: 2012
Publisher: Fordham University Press
- 9780823242092 (hardcover)
- 9780823242115 (ebook)