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Reconstructing individualism: a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison

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