Research Catalog

Title

The Cornel West reader / Cornel West.

Author

West, Cornel

Publication

New York, NY : Basic Civitas Books, ©1999.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Aaron, Daniel, 1912-2016

Description

xx, 604 pages; 25 cm

Summary

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

Subject

• West, Cornel > Political and social views
• West, Cornel
• Since 1989
• African Americans > Intellectual life
• African American intellectuals
• African Americans > Politics and government
• Progressivism (United States politics)
• African Americans > Religion
• Civilization > Philosophy
• Political and social views
• Politics and government
• Race relations
• Politiek
• Politieke filosofie
• Intellectuelen
• Negers
• United States > Philosophy. > 1989-
• United States > Philosophy
• United States > Race relations
• United States > Philosophy
• United States > Race relations
• United States

Genre/Form

Association copies (Provenance)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza's In memory of her -- On Leszek Kolakowski -- On liberation theology : Segundo and Hinkelammert -- Christian love and heterosexism -- A philosophical view of Easter -- On Gibson Winter's ecological ecumenism -- Prophetic Christian as organic intellectual : Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Subversive joy and revolutionary patience in black Christianity -- VII. The arts. Critical reflections on art -- Horace Pippin's challenge to art criticism -- Race and architecture -- The spirituals as lyrical poetry -- In memory of Marvin Gaye -- On Afro-American music : from bebop to rap -- On Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the mirror -- On Walt Whitman -- VIII. Race and difference. On affirmative action -- On black-brown relations -- On black sexuality -- On black nationalism -- Tensions with Jewish friends and foes -- On Jackie Robinson -- On Julianne Malveaux -- Conversation with bell hooks -- IX. Postscript. Chekhov, Coltrane and democracy.

ISBN

• 0465091091
• 9780465091096
• 0465091105 (pbk.)
• 9780465091102 (pbk.)

LCCN

99462518

OCLC

• 42706265
• SCSB-10086761

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library