Cornel West and the Politics of Prophetic Pragmatism

• Author : Mark David Wood
• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
• Release : 05 June 2023

"Wood evaluates the political consequences of a shift in West's position from an earlier, revolutionary socialist stance to a later, progressive reformist one. Wood shows how West's subsequent reworking of Marxism supports his transition from a socialist to a progressivist politics."--BOOK JACKET.

• Author : John Morrison
• Publisher : Infobase Publishing
• Release : 05 June 2023

Cornel West is one of the leading scholars, teachers, and writers in the field of American studies.

• Author : Clarence Johnson
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 01 May 2014

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

• Author : Keith Gilyard
• Publisher : SIU Press
• Release : 05 May 2008

Composition and Cornel West: Notes toward a Deep Democracy identifies and explains key aspects of the work of Cornel West—the highly regarded scholar of religion, philosophy, and African American studies—as they relate to composition studies, focusing especially on three rhetorical strategies that West suggests we use in our questioning lives as scholars, teachers, students, and citizens. In this study, author Keith Gilyard examines the strategies of Socratic Commitment (a relentless examination of received wisdom), Prophetic Witness (an abiding

• Author : Everest Media,
• Publisher : Everest Media LLC
• Release : 11 June 2022

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The liberal/conservative debate overlooks the most basic issue facing black America: the existential threat to its very existence. The debate fails to address the fact that people, especially degraded and oppressed people, are also hungry for identity, meaning, and self-worth. #2 The first African encounter with the New World was an encounter with a distinctive form of the Absurd. The initial black struggle against degradation and

• Author : Cornel West
• Publisher : Hay House, Inc
• Release : 15 October 2009

New York Times­ best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom, the streets, the prisons, or the church, Dr. West’s penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon shining through the darkness for decades. Yet, as he points out in this new memoir, "I’ve never taken the time to focus on the inner dynamics of the dark precincts of my soul." That is, until now. Brother West is

• Author : Cornel West
• Publisher : Civitas Books
• Release : 14 August 2000

Cornel West is one of the nation's premier public intellectuals and one of the great prophetic voices of our era. Whether he is writing a scholarly book or an article for Newsweek, whether he is speaking of Emerson, Gramsci, or Marvin Gaye, his work radiates a passion that reflects the rich traditions he draws on and weaves togetherÑBaptist preaching, American transcendentalism, jazz, radical politics. This anthology reveals the dazzling range of West's work, from his explorations of ”Prophetic Pragmatism”

• Author : Gary J. Dorrien
• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• Release : 05 June 2023

"Gary Dorrien is the preeminent social ethicist in North America today."-Cornel West, Princeton University "The most rigorous theological historian of our time, moving from analyses of social context and personal struggles through the most abstruse theological and metaphysical issues."-Robert Neville, Boston University "Gary Dorrien's scholarly investigation of capitalism's destructive collision with society has greater urgency for America than ever before. Given all the adversities our nation faces, Americans need to learn and consider the great possibilities that Dorrien

• Author : Naomi Zack
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 05 June 2023

"The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race provides up-to-date explanation and analyses by leading scholars in African American philosophy and philosophy of race. Fifty-one original essays cover major topics from intellectual history to contemporary social controversies in this emerging philosophical subfield that supports demographic inclusion and emphasizes cultural relevance."--[Source inconnue]

• Author : Jennifer Hockenbery
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release : 01 March 2019

"Serious philosophy is not an attempt to construct a system of beliefs, but the activity of awakening, the conversation passionately pursued. Only if professional philosophy reclaims this paradigm and finds ways to embody it, will it achieve an active place in the thought and life of our culture." --James Conlon, "Stanley Cavell and the Predicament of Philosophy." This book is a collection of serious philosophical essays that aim to awaken readers, teachers, and students to a desire for conversation passionately

• Author : Mitchell Aboulafia,John R. Shook
• Publisher : Rodopi
• Release : 01 March 2009

Contents Rosa Maria MAYORGA: Rethinking Democratic Ideals in Light of Charles Peirce Lara M. TROUT: ¿Colorblindness¿ and Sincere Paper-Doubt: A Socio-political Application of C. S. Peirce¿s Critical Common-sensism James R. WIBLE: The Economic Mind of Charles Sanders Peirce James Ronald STANFIELD and Michael C. CARROLL: The Pragmatist Legacy in American Institutionalism Mike O¿CONNOR: The Limits of Liberalism: Pragmatism, Democracy and Capitalism Dwayne A. TUNSTALL: Cornel West, John Dewey, and the Tragicomic Undercurrents of Deweyan Creative Democracy Eric Thomas

• Author : Richard Delgado,Jean Stefancic
• Publisher : Temple University Press
• Release : 05 June 2023

In this wide-ranging second edition, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic bring together the finest, most illustrative, and highly accessible articles in the fast-growing legal genre of Critical Race Theory. In challenging orthodoxy, questioning the premises of liberalism, and debating sacred wisdoms, Critical Race Theory scholars writing over the past few years have indelibly changed the way America looks at race. This edition contains treatment of all the topics covered in the first edition, along with provocative and probing questions for

• Author : Melvin L. Rogers,Jack Turner
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 16 February 2021

African American Political Thought offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, solidarity, and mass political action. Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner have brought together leading scholars to reflect on individual intellectuals from the past four centuries, developing their list with an expansive approach to political expression. The collected essays consider such figures as Martin Delany, Ida B. Wells,

• Author : Reiland Rabaka
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 23 March 2021

W.E.B Du Bois is widely considered one of the most accomplished and controversial African American intellectuals in U.S. history. A pioneering historian, sociologist, political economist, and civil rights activist, his masterpiece The Souls of Black Folk remains one of the most widely read books in the history of American literature. In this new book, Reiland Rabaka critically explores Du Bois’s multidimensional legacy, lucidly introducing his main contributions in areas ranging from American sociology and critical race

• Author : Eduardo Mendieta
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release : 05 June 2008

Philosophical explorations of the processes of globalization, particularly in the context of Latin America.