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Reconstructing Individualism - A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison (Hardcover, New)
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Reconstructing Individualism - A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison (Hardcover, New)
Series: American Philosophy
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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
Americanthinkers-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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