| Description |
xv, 380 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Blackwell critical readers
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Blackwell critical readers.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-368) and index. |
| Contents |
Pragmatism resurgent : a reading of The American Evasion of Philosophy / Hilary W. Putnam -- Unacknowledged fourth tradition : an essay on nihilism, decadence, and the Black intellectual tradition in the existential pragmatic thought of Cornel West / Lewis R. Gordon -- Cornel West on prophesy, pragmatism, and philosophy : a critical evaluation of prophetic pragmatism / Clevis Headley -- Which pragmatism? Whose America? / Eduardo Mendieta -- "Let suffering speak" : the vocation of a Black intellectual / James H. Cove. |
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Religion and the mirror of God : historicism, truth, and religious pluralism / George Yancy -- Is Cornel West also among the theologians? The shadow of the divine in the religious thought of Cornel West / Victor Anderson -- Cornel West's improvisational philosophy of religion / M. Shawn Copeland -- Existential aptness and epistemological correctness : Cornel West and the identity of the "Lord" / Josiah Ulysses Young -- Cornel West on gender and family : some admiring and critical comments / Iris M. Young -- Prophetic pragmatism as political philosophy / Charles W. Mills. |
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"Radical historicism," antiphilosophy, and Marxism / John P. Pittman -- Cornel West and Afro-nihilsim : a reconsideraton/ Floyd W. Hayes -- On Cornel West on W.E.B. Du Bois / Lucius T. Outlaw -- Political philosophy and humanism of Cornel West / Howard McGary -- "It's dark and hell is hot" : Cornel West, the crisis of African-American intellectuals and the cultural politics of race / Peniel E. Joseph -- Reading Cornel West as a humnanistic scholar : rhetoric and practice / Clarence Shole Johnson -- Cornel West's representations of the intellectual : but some of us are brave? / Nada Elia. |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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African American intellectuals.
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African American intellectuals. |
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West, Cornel -- Political and social views.
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West, Cornel. |
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Political and social views. |
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African Americans -- Politics and government.
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African Americans -- Politics and government. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Philosophy.
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United States. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1989- |
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Philosophy. |
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Pragmatism.
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Pragmatism. |
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United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy.
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Civilization. |
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African Americans -- Religion.
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African Americans -- Religion. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Added Author |
Yancy, George.
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| ISBN |
0631222928 paperback alkaline paper |
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