Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison

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{  } Addams, Jane, 314n23 Adell, Sandra, 365n6 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 305 Albrecht, James M., 321n45, 338n49 Allen, Danielle, 366n6 American Renaissance (Matthiessen), 282 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 313n15 Aquinas, Thomas, 79 Arieli, Yehoshua, 328n104 Aristotle, 197, 229 Arvin, Newton, 325n27 Baker, Houston A., Jr., 295, 298–89, 369n52 Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 43 Bellah, Robert, 13–15, 313n21, 314n23 Bercovitch, Sacvan, 107–8 Blake, Casey Nelson, 366n12 Bloom, Harold, 29 Bourne, Randolph, 249, 315n29, 357n11, 358n12 Brooks, Van Wyck, 26, 316n8 Buell, Lawrence, 364n4, 367n14 Burke, Kenneth: comic ethics, 291–94, 296, 369n61; doctrine of compensation, 65, 294; frames of acceptance, 293–94; and Ellison, Ralph, 296–304, 370n61; on Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 291–95; identification, 291, 293, 299, 302, 305; and James, William, 293–94; on transcendentalism, 39, 46. Burke, Kenneth (works): Attitudes toward History, 65, 231–32, 292–94, 302, 321–22n58, 370n63; A Grammar of Motives, 39, 64–65, 289, 369n56; “I, Eye, Ay—Emerson’s Early Essay ‘Nature,’ 317n11; “Ralph Ellison’s Trueblooded Bildungsroman,” 365n6; A Rhetoric of Motives, 231–32, 291–93, 343n128, 370n63 Calhoun, John C., 114 Callahan, John F., 370nn55, 59 Campbell, James, 315n33, 333–34n5, 342n125, 344n3, 356n4 Capital (Marx), 98–99, 199, 328–29n110 Carlyle, Thomas, 43 Carpenter, Frederic, 29, 32, 318n18 Cavell, Stanley, 29–30, 48, 288, 322n63 Cherokee Nation, 123 Chesterton, G.K., 25 communitarianism, versus individualism, 12–15, 314n27 Compromise of 1850, 113 Coon, Deborah, 333n1 Cotkin, George, 333n2 D’Amico, Alfonso J., 356n4 Democracy in America (Tocqueville), 2, 12–13, 311n1, 313n17 Deutsch, Leonard J., 364n4 Dewey, John: character as “interpenetration of habits,” 204; character in moral selfhood, chapter 4, passim; community, 240, 260; community as inherently local, 267–68; community threatened by global capitalist order, 247–51; democracy as community, 5–6, 239–41; democracy and education, 237–39; democracy as pragmatic ideal, 241–43; democracy as “way of life,” 5, 194; dualisms of Western philosophy, 3–5, 198–99; egoism versus altruism, 222–26; ends-in-view, 210; experience, pluralistic model of, 3, 197–99; great society versus great community, 247, 267–68, 356n5; habit, compared to Emerson, 200, 203–4; habits, 198–99; habits as constituting the self 201, 204; habits, in deliberation, 206–10; habits and plasticity of self, Index B I n dE x  199–214; happiness, 220, 227; individual responsibility for liberty, 270–271; integrated individuality, 268–69; and James, William, 18, 143–44, 156–57, 162–63, 184–85,189–90, 244, 271–72, 335n9, 337n44, 342n125; liberal individualism, critique of, 6–8, 256–65; liberty, 5–6, 230–31; means and ends, 208–214; meliorism, compared to Emerson and James, 212–14; morals and moral theory, 214–32; moral selfhood, chapter 4, passim; moral self, compared to Burke and Ellison, 231–32, 276–77; moral self, dynamism of, compared to Emerson 231–32; moral self, habits of, 218–32; Mumford, Lewis, debate over “pragmatic acquiescence,” 249–51, 358n12; public, defined, 251; public, experimentalist theory of, 251–56; pluralism, in metaphysics, 196–97; reform, approach to, 232–43; reform, compared to Emerson, 235–36; reform, versus standard individualist or collectivist approaches, 234–35, 259–65; state, experimentalist theory of, 251–56; tragic sensibility, 209 Dewey, John (works): Art as Experience, 191; A Common Faith, 362–63n60; Democracy and Education, 104, 164, 191, 210, 223–24, 238, 346n25, 351n87; “The Development of American Pragmatism,” 336–38; “Emerson—The Philosopher of Democracy,” 52, 191, 193–94, 344n5; Ethics, 152, 213–14, 217–23, 227–31, 259–60, 266–67, 346n30, 350n77, 351n88, 352–53n95, 362n51; Experience and Nature, 196–98, 321n45, 347n43, 352n92; Freedom and Culture, 191; “From Absolutism to Experimentalism,” 337n43; Human Nature and Conduct, 5, 16–17, 37, 41, 130, 133, 137–38, 156–57, 173, 199–213, 218–20, 226, 231, 233–38, 262, 309–10, 345n15, 23, 351n89, 352n94, 353n97, 354n104; Individualism Old and New, 6, 190, 195, 232, 234, 240, 244–46, 248, 250–51, 256, 259, 261–66, 268–69, 271–73, 308, 311n1, 361n40, 370n76; Liberalism and Social Action, 191, 362n41; “Philosophy and Democracy,” 316n2; The Public and Its Problems, 15, 191–92, 195, 232, 234–35, 240, 243–48, 251–59, 261, 263–68, 272–76, 307, 312n9, 355n106, 360nn30–31; “The Pragmatic Acquiescence,” 187; Reconstruction in Philosophy, 5, 197–98, 211–12, 238–39, 258, 260–61, 307, 321n45, 353n97; “Three Independent Factors in Morals,” 214–15, 348–49nn61, 63–64; “Time and Individuality,” 156–57; “The Vanishing Subject in the Work of...