LEADER 04399nam 2200961Ia 450 001 9910788679103321 005 20210428212135.0 010 $a0-8232-4212-9 010 $a9786613889911 010 $a1-283-57746-1 010 $a0-8232-4211-0 010 $a0-8232-4659-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823242122 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065558 035 $a(EBL)3239610 035 $a(OCoLC)787845992 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000601772 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11340087 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000601772 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10565368 035 $a(PQKB)11607807 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239610 035 $a(OCoLC)830023895 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14120 035 $a(DE-B1597)555290 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823242122 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC976990 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239610 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539026 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL388991 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL976990 035 $a(OCoLC)801363546 035 $a(dli)HEB31297 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000012354002 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065558 100 $a20111031d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReconstructing individualism$b[electronic resource] $ea pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison /$fJames M. Albrecht 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (392 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican philosophy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-4209-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. ?Individualism Has Never Been Tried? --$tOne. What?s the Use of Reading Emerson Pragmatically? --$tTwo. ?Let Us Have Worse Cotton and Better Men? --$tThree. Moments in the World?s Salvation --$tFour. Character and Community --$tFive. ?The Local Is the Ultimate Universal? --$tSix. Saying Yes and Saying No --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aAmerica has a love?hate relationship with individualism. In Reconstructing Individualism, James Albrecht argues that our conceptions of individualism have remained trapped within the assumptions of classic liberalism. He traces an alternative genealogy of individualist ethics in four major American thinkers?Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, John Dewey, and Ralph Ellison. These writers? shared commitments to pluralism (metaphysical and cultural), experimentalism, and a melioristic stance toward value and reform led them to describe the self as inherently relational. Accordingly, they articulate models of selfhood that are socially engaged and ethically responsible, and they argue that a reconceived?or, in Dewey?s term, ?reconstructed??individualism is not merely compatible with but necessary to democratic community. Conceiving selfhood and community as interrelated processes, they call for an ongoing reform of social conditions so as to educate and liberate individuality, and, conversely, they affirm the essential role individuality plays in vitalizing communal efforts at reform. 410 0$aAmerican philosophy. 606 $aIndividualism in literature 606 $aIndividualism$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States 606 $aPhilosophy, American$y19th century 606 $aPhilosophy, American$y20th century 606 $aPragmatism in literature 610 $aDemocracy. 610 $aEthics. 610 $aIndividualism. 610 $aJohn Dewey. 610 $aPragmatism. 610 $aRalph Ellison. 610 $aRalph Waldo Emerson. 610 $aTranscendentalism. 610 $aWilliam James. 615 0$aIndividualism in literature. 615 0$aIndividualism$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature and society 615 0$aPhilosophy, American 615 0$aPhilosophy, American 615 0$aPragmatism in literature. 676 $a141/.40973 686 $aPHI020000$aPHI019000$2bisacsh 700 $aAlbrecht$b James M$0928221 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788679103321 996 $aReconstructing individualism$92086002 997 $aUNINA