African-American Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions

ISBN-13: 9780415916394 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 318 str.

John Pittman;John Pittman

Opis

This valuable collection comprises twelve essays divided into three sections: Philosophical Traditions, African-American tradition and Racism, Identity and Social Life.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: SECTION ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS: 1. African-American Philosophy? - K. Anthony Appia; 2. African Philosophical Tradition: A Case Study of Akan - Kwasi Wiredu; 3. African, African American, Africana Philosophy - Lucius Outlaw; 4. The Horror of Tradition or How to burn Babylon and Build Benin While Reading A Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note - Leonard Harris; SECTION TWO: THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN TRADITION: 5. Two Traditions in African American Political Philosophy - Bernard Boxill; 6. Modernity and Intellectual Life in Black - Frank M. Kirkland; 7. Du Bois on the Invention of Race - Tommy L. Lott; SECTION THREE: RACISM, IDENTITY, AND SOCIAL LIFE: 8. Xenophobia and Kantian Rationalism - Adrian M.S. Piper; 9. Moral Deference - Laurence Thomas; 10. Race, Class, and the Social Construction of Self-Respect - Michele M. Moody-Adams; 11. The Role Model Argument and Faculty Diversity - Anita L. Allen; 12. Alienation and the African-American Experience - Howard McGary

O autorze

John Pittman teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at CUNY.