Title Statements
- Full title :The Cornel West reader / Cornel West.
Summary
"The best work of an always compelling, often controversial and absolutely essential philosopher of the American experience, modernity, and the human condition."
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©1999.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Basic Civitas Books
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xx, 604 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- oclc:on1244577661
- LC Classification:E185.86
- Dewey Decimal:305.896/073
Table of Contents
Introduction : To be human, modern and American -- I. Autobiographical prelude. The making of an American radical democrat of African descent -- On my intellectual vocation -- Sing a song -- II. Modernity and its discontents. The ignoble paradox of modernity -- Race and modernity -- Black strivings in a twilight civilization -- The new cultural politics of difference -- III. American pragmatism. Why pragmatism? -- On prophetic pragmatism -- Pragmatism and the sense of the tragic -- The limits of neopragmatism -- Nietzsche's prefiguration of postmodern American philosophy -- IV. Progressive Marxist theory. The indispensability yet insufficiency of Marxist theory -- Fredric Jameson's American Marxism -- Race and social theory -- V. Radical democratic politics. The role of law in progressive politics -- The political intellectual -- A world of ideas -- The dilemma of the black intellectual -- American progressivism reoriented -- Parents and national survival -- On the 1980s -- Michael Harrington, democratic socialist.
VI. Prophetic Christian thought. The crisis in contemporary American religion -- The historicist turn in philosophy of religion -- Religion and the left -- On Elizabet…
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