LEADER 03620cam 2200637 a 4500001 ssj0000601772 003 WaSeSS 005 20240312082108.0 006 m d 007 cr n 008 111031s2012 nyu sb 001 0 eng d 010 2011042862 020 9780823242092 (hardback) 035 (WaSeSS)ssj0000601772 040 DLC |cDLC |dWaSeSS 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 049 EREENEHH 050 00 B832 |b.A345 2012 082 00 141/.40973 |223 084 PHI020000PHI019000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Albrecht, James M. 245 10 Reconstructing individualism |h[electronic resource] : |ba pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison / |cJames M. Albrecht. 250 1st ed. 260 New York : |bFordham University Press, 300 xii, 376 p. ; |c24 cm. 490 0 American philosophy 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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. 506 Available only to authorized users. 520 "Explores the theories of democratic individualism articulated in the works of the American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, pragmatic philosophers William James and John Dewey, and African-American novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison"-- |cProvided by publisher. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web 600 10 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, |d1803-1882 |xPhilosophy. 600 10 James, William, |d1842-1910 |xPhilosophy. 600 10 Dewey, John, |d1859-1952 |xPhilosophy. 600 10 Ellison, Ralph |xPhilosophy. 650 0 Philosophy, American |y19th century. 650 0 Philosophy, American |y20th century. 650 0 Literature and society |zUnited States. 650 0 Individualism |zUnited States |xHistory. 650 0 Individualism in literature. 650 0 Pragmatism in literature. 650 7 PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism. |2bisacsh 650 7 PHILOSOPHY / Political. |2bisacsh 655 0 Electronic books. 710 2 American Council of Learned Societies. 856 40 |zFull text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |uhttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhdl.handle.net%2F2027%2Fheb31297.0001.001 856 40 |zFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/eastcarolina/detail.action?docID=3239610 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJOYNER188 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hHSL77 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJMUSIC60 596 1 3 4 998 4251743