The Cornel West reader

The Cornel West reader

by West, Cornel

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"The best work of an always compelling, often controversial and absolutely essential philosopher of the American experience, modernity, and the human condition."

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The Cornel West reader / Cornel West.

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"The best work of an always compelling, often controversial and absolutely essential philosopher of the American experience, modernity, and the human condition."

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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:xx, 604 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0465091091, 9780465091096, 0465091105 (pbk.), 9780465091102 (pbk.)
  • oclc:ocm42706265
  • 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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Subjects

African American intellectuals African Americans -- Intellectual life African Americans -- Politics and gover… African Americans -- Religion Civilization -- Philosophy Cultura nord-americana -- S. XX Estats Units d'Amèrica -- Relacions rac… États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement… États-Unis -- Relations raciales Intellectuelen Intellectuels noirs américains Negers Negres -- Vida intel·lectual. -- S. XX … Noirs américains -- Politique et gouver… Noirs américains -- Religion Noirs américains -- Vie intellectuelle Political and social views Politics and government politiek Politieke filosofie

Writers

West, Cornel

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