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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Albrecht, James M.
Titre(s) : Reconstructing individualism [Texte imprimé] : a pragmatic tradition from Emerson to Ellison / James M. Albrecht
Publication : New York : Fordham University Press, 2012
Description matérielle : xii-376 p. ; 24 cm
Collection : American philosophy
Lien à la collection : American philosophy series (New York)
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"--
Sujet(s) : Individualisme -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Individualisme -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Pragmatisme (philosophie) -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Pragmatisme (philosophie) -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780823242092 (hardback). - ISBN 0823242099 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb426049425
Notice n° :
FRBNF42604942
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