| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 376 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
American philosophy |
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American philosophy series (Unnumbered)
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Fordham American philosophy.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2013. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) ([Fordham American philosophy)] Mode of access: Intranet. |
| Subject |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Philosophy.
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James, William, 1842-1910 -- Philosophy.
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Dewey, John, 1859-1952 -- Philosophy.
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Ellison, Ralph -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy, American -- 19th century.
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Philosophy, American -- 20th century.
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Literature and society -- United States.
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Individualism -- United States -- History.
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Individualism in literature.
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Pragmatism in literature.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| Other Form: |
Original 9780823242092 (DLC) 2011042862 |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb31297 hdl |
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