Reconstructing Individualism : : A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison / / James M. Albrecht.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Philosophy
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. “Individualism Has Never Been Tried”
- Part One. Emerson
- One. What’s the Use of Reading Emerson Pragmatically?
- Two. “Let Us Have Worse Cotton and Better Men”
- Part Two. Pragmatism
- Three. Moments in the World’s Salvation
- Four. Character and Community
- Five. “The Local Is the Ultimate Universal”
- Part Three. A Tragicomic Ethics in the Emersonian Vein
- Six. Saying Yes and Saying No
- Notes
- Index