Reconstructing Individualism : A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison / James M. Albrecht.
Albrecht, James M., author.
2012
B832 .A345 2012eb
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Title Reconstructing Individualism : A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison / James M. Albrecht.
Author Albrecht, James M., author.
ISBN 9780823242122
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823242122
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (368 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823242122 doi
Call Number B832 .A345 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 141/.40973
Summary 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.
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Series American Philosophy
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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

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