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An American friendship : Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the development of cultural pluralism

Title
An American friendship : Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the development of cultural pluralism / David Weinfeld.
Author
Weinfeld, David, 1982-
Publication
  • Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
  • ©2022

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Description
xi, 248 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"An American Friendship narrates the development of cultural pluralism, an idea that emerged in the early twentieth century to explain and shape American diversity, as told through the unlikely friendship of two philosophers, Jewish immigrant and Zionist leader Horace Kallen, and African American Alain Locke, intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance"--
Subject
  • Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974 > Friends and associates
  • Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974 > Influence
  • Locke, Alain, 1885-1954 > Friends and associates
  • Locke, Alain, 1885-1954 > Influence
  • Kallen, Horace Meyer, 1882-1974
  • Locke, Alain, 1885-1954
  • 1900-1999
  • Jewish philosophers > United States
  • African American philosophers
  • Philosophers > United States > Friends and associates
  • Cultural pluralism > United States > History > 20th century
  • Multiculturalism > United States > History > 20th century
  • Cultural pluralism
  • Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  • Friends and associates
  • Jewish philosophers
  • Philosophers
  • Multiculturalism
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-239) and index.
Contents
Introduction: What difference does the difference make? Cultural pluralism as friendship -- From Berenstadt to Boston -- The talented among the tenth -- Locke and Kallen, student and teacher -- American pluralists, friends at Oxford -- The Plural is political -- Plural in culture, universal in religion -- Friendship rekindled, pluralism refined -- Locke's legacy, Kallen's memory -- Conclusion: Differences made.
Call Number
Sc E 23-298
ISBN
  • 9781501763090
  • 1501763091
  • 9781501763106 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781501763113 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2021052349
OCLC
1260291858
Author
Weinfeld, David, 1982- author.
Title
An American friendship : Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the development of cultural pluralism / David Weinfeld.
Publisher
Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-239) and index.
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Other Form:
Online version: Weinfeld, David, 1982- American friendship. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022 9781501763106 (DLC) 2021052350
Research Call Number
Sc E 23-298
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