Title: The Cornel West reader /
Authors: West, Cornel; Aaron, Daniel, 1912-2016,
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books ,
Year: 1999
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 Philosophy.; United States Civilization Philosophy.; United States Race relations
Abstract: "The best work of an always compelling, often controversial and absolutley essential philosopher of the American experience, modernity, and the human condition."
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 -