Reconstructing individualism : a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison
Philosophy, American Literature and society Individualism Individualism in literature Pragmatism in literature Emerson, Ralph Waldo, James, William, Dewey, John, Ellison, Ralph sähkökirjat
Fordham University Press
2012
1st ed.
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.
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.
