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Reconstructing individualism [[electronic resource] ] : a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison / / James M. Albrecht



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Autore: Albrecht James M Visualizza persona
Titolo: Reconstructing individualism [[electronic resource] ] : a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison / / James M. Albrecht Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
Disciplina: 141/.40973
Soggetto topico: Individualism in literature
Individualism - United States - History
Literature and society - United States
Philosophy, American - 19th century
Philosophy, American - 20th century
Pragmatism in literature
Soggetto non controllato: Democracy
Ethics
Individualism
John Dewey
Pragmatism
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalism
William James
Classificazione: PHI020000PHI019000
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. “Individualism Has Never Been Tried” -- One. What’s the Use of Reading Emerson Pragmatically? -- Two. “Let Us Have Worse Cotton and Better Men” -- Three. Moments in the World’s Salvation -- Four. Character and Community -- Five. “The Local Is the Ultimate Universal” -- Six. Saying Yes and Saying No -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: America 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Reconstructing individualism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-4212-9
9786613889911
1-283-57746-1
0-8232-4211-0
0-8232-4659-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788679103321
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Serie: American philosophy.