Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison

by 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 thinkers--Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, John Dewey, and Ralph Ellison.

These writers' shared commitments to pluralism (metaphysical and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823242099
• ISBN13: 9780823242092
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: American Literatures Initiative
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"