Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison

Contents

Contents B Acknowledgments xi Introduction. “Individualism Has Never Been Tried”: Toward a Pragmatic Individualism 1 Pa rt I. Em E r son 1 What’s the Use of Reading Emerson Pragmatically?: The Example of William James 25 2 “Let Us Have Worse Cotton and Better Men”: Emerson’s Ethics of Self-Culture 53 Pa rt II. Pr agm at Ism : Ja m E s a n d dE w E y 3 Moments in the World’s Salvation: James’s Pragmatic Individualism 127 4 Character and Community: Dewey’s Model of Moral Selfhood 191 5 “The Local Is the Ultimate Universal”: Dewey on Reconstructing Individuality and Community 244 Pa rt III. a tr agIc om Ic Et h Ic s I n t h E Em E r son I a n VE I n : KE n n Et h Bu r K E a n d ra l Ph El l Ison 6 Saying Yes and Saying No: Individualist Ethics in Ellison and Burke  Notes  Index  ...