Cornel West and Philosophy: The Quest for Social Justice

ISBN-13: 9780415940733 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 238 str.

Clarence Shole Johnson; C. Johnson; Clarence Johnson

Opis

Cornel West is one of the most celebrated intellectuals working in America today. Professor Clarence Shole Johnson offers a reading of his important contributions to philosophy in this benchmark, thought-provoking book.

Recenzje

"...a formidable work of scholarship. As a philosophical scholar, Johnson has produced a readerly text that captures the reader's attention from beginning to end." -- Floyd W. Hayes, III, The APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience
"Nowhere in the literature on West -- and certainly not in West's writings themselves -- is there nearly such a good statement of West's views or one that organizes them into such a readily comprehensible structure. So, for someone who is looking for a good clear understanding of what really drives West's apparently unconnected views on so many matters, this volume cannot be beaten." -- Amazon.com
". . .the best available introduction to West's thought." -- Amazon.com
"...a welcome and intelligent assessment of West's philosophy and ethics and their engagement with issues of social justice and race." -- Seminary Co-op Bookstore Review
"...a formidable work of scholarship. As a philosophical scholar, Johnson has produced a readerly text that captures the reader's attention from beginning to end." -- Floyd W. Hayes, III, APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Introduction: Cornel West's Philosophical Writings and Social Justice 1. Pragmatism and Existentialism 2. Humanistic Scholarship and Praxis 3. Black Prophetic Christianity and Marxist Social Thought 4. Black-Jewish Conflict and Dialogue 5. Affirmative Action and Proto-Marxism 6. Modernity, Philosophy, and Race(ism) Postscript: West, Public Intellectualism, and the Harvard Controversy Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Clarence Sholé Johnson is Professor of Philosophy at Middle Tennessee State University. He specializes in early modern philosophy, ethics and Africana and African American philosophy.