The Cornel West reader / Cornel West.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	West, Cornel
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Basic Civitas Books, c1999.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	West, Cornel > Political and social views. African Americans > Intellectual life. African American intellectuals. African Americans > Politics and government. Progressivism (United States politics) African Americans > Religion. United States > Politics and government > 1989-1993 > Philosophy. United States > Civilization > Philosophy. United States > Race relations.

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 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.

The Cornel West reader / Cornel West.

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