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Cornel West : a critical reader / edited by George Yancy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Blackwell critical readersPublication details: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2001.Description: xv, 380 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 063122291X (alk. paper)
  • 0631222928 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973 21
LOC classification:
  • E185.86 .W4383 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Cornel West: The Vanguard of Existential and Democratic Hope / George Yancy -- Pt. I. Pragmatism -- 1. Pragmatism Resurgent: A Reading of The American Evasion of Philosophy / Hilary W. Putnam -- 2. The Unacknowledged Fourth Tradition: An Essay on Nihilism, Decadence, and the Black Intellectual Tradition in the Existential Pragmatic Thought of Cornel West / Lewis R. Gordon -- 3. Cornel West on Prophesy, Pragmatism, and Philosophy: A Critical Evaluation of Prophetic Pragmatism / Clevis Headley -- 4. Which Pragmatism? Whose America? / Eduardo Mendieta -- Pt. II. Philosophy of Religion -- 5. "Let Suffering Speak": The Vocation of a Black Intellectual / James H. Cone -- 6. Religion and the Mirror of God: Historicism, Truth, and Religious Pluralism / George Yancy -- 7. Is Cornel West also Among the Theologians? The Shadow of the Divine in the Religious Thought of Cornel West / Victor Anderson -- 8. Cornel West's Improvisational Philosophy of Religion / M. Shawn Copeland -- 9. Existential Aptness and Epistemological Correctness: Cornel West and the Identity of the "Lord" / Josiah Ulysses Young III -- Pt. III. Political Philosophy -- 10. Cornel West on Gender and Family: Some Admiring and Critical Comments / Iris M. Young -- 11. Prophetic Pragmatism as Political Philosophy / Charles W. Mills -- 12. "Radical Historicism," Antiphilosophy, and Marxism / John P. Pittman -- 13. Cornel West and Afro-Nihilism: A Reconsideration / Floyd W. Hayes III -- 14. On Cornel West on W. E. B. Du Bois / Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. -- 15. The Political Philosophy and Humanism of Cornel West / Howard McGary, Jr. -- Pt. IV. Cultural Studies -- 16. "It's Dark and Hell Is Hot": Cornel West, the Crisis of African-American Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Race / Peniel E. Joseph -- 17. Reading Cornel West as a Humanistic Scholar: Rhetoric and Practice / Clarence Shole Johnson -- 18. Cornel West's Representations of the Intellectual: But Some of Us Are Brave? / Nada Elia -- Afterword / Cornel West -- Select Bibliography of Cornel West's Works.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-368) and index.

Cornel West: The Vanguard of Existential and Democratic Hope / George Yancy -- Pt. I. Pragmatism -- 1. Pragmatism Resurgent: A Reading of The American Evasion of Philosophy / Hilary W. Putnam -- 2. The Unacknowledged Fourth Tradition: An Essay on Nihilism, Decadence, and the Black Intellectual Tradition in the Existential Pragmatic Thought of Cornel West / Lewis R. Gordon -- 3. Cornel West on Prophesy, Pragmatism, and Philosophy: A Critical Evaluation of Prophetic Pragmatism / Clevis Headley -- 4. Which Pragmatism? Whose America? / Eduardo Mendieta -- Pt. II. Philosophy of Religion -- 5. "Let Suffering Speak": The Vocation of a Black Intellectual / James H. Cone -- 6. Religion and the Mirror of God: Historicism, Truth, and Religious Pluralism / George Yancy -- 7. Is Cornel West also Among the Theologians? The Shadow of the Divine in the Religious Thought of Cornel West / Victor Anderson -- 8. Cornel West's Improvisational Philosophy of Religion / M. Shawn Copeland -- 9. Existential Aptness and Epistemological Correctness: Cornel West and the Identity of the "Lord" / Josiah Ulysses Young III -- Pt. III. Political Philosophy -- 10. Cornel West on Gender and Family: Some Admiring and Critical Comments / Iris M. Young -- 11. Prophetic Pragmatism as Political Philosophy / Charles W. Mills -- 12. "Radical Historicism," Antiphilosophy, and Marxism / John P. Pittman -- 13. Cornel West and Afro-Nihilism: A Reconsideration / Floyd W. Hayes III -- 14. On Cornel West on W. E. B. Du Bois / Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. -- 15. The Political Philosophy and Humanism of Cornel West / Howard McGary, Jr. -- Pt. IV. Cultural Studies -- 16. "It's Dark and Hell Is Hot": Cornel West, the Crisis of African-American Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Race / Peniel E. Joseph -- 17. Reading Cornel West as a Humanistic Scholar: Rhetoric and Practice / Clarence Shole Johnson -- 18. Cornel West's Representations of the Intellectual: But Some of Us Are Brave? / Nada Elia -- Afterword / Cornel West -- Select Bibliography of Cornel West's Works.

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