Cornel West
Subtitle: a critical reader
By: edited by George Yancy.
Contributors: Yancy, George.
Series: Blackwell critical readers
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Brand: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: West, Cornel -- Political and social views; African Americans -- Intellectual life; African American intellectuals; African Americans -- Politics and government; Pragmatism; African Americans -- Religion; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Philosophy; United States -- Civilization -- Philosophy; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-368) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part I Pragmatism 17 1 Pragmatism Resurgent: A Reading of The American Evasion of Philosophy 19 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 38 Lewis R. Gordon 3 Cornel West on Prophesy, Pragmatism, and Philosophy: A Critical Evaluation of Prophetic Pragmatism 59 Clevis Headley 4 Which Pragmatism? Whose America? 83 Eduardo Mendieta Part II Philosophy of Religion 103 5 "Let Suffering Speak:" The Vocation of a Black Intellectual 105 James H. Cone 6 Religion and the Mirror of God: Historicism, Truth, and Religious Pluralism 115 George Yancy 7 Is Cornel West also Among the Theologians? The Shadow of the Divine in the Religious Thought of Cornel West 139 Victor Anderson 8 Cornel West's Improvisational Philosophy of Religion 154 M. Shawn Copeland 9 Existential Aptness and Epistemological Correctness: Cornel West and the Identity of the "Lord" 167 Josiah Ulysses Young III Part III Political Philosophy 177 10 Cornel West on Gender and Family: Some Admiring and Critical Comments 179 Iris M. Young 11 Prophetic Pragmatism as Political Philosophy 192 Charles W. Mills 12 "Radical Historicism," Antiphilosophy, and Marxism 224 John P. Pittman 13 Cornel West and Afro-Nihilism: A Reconsideration 245 Floyd W. Hayes III 14 On Cornel West on W. E. B. Du Bois 261 Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr 15 The Political Philosophy and Humanism of Cornel West 280 Howard McCary, Jr Part IV Cultural Studies 293 16 "It's Dark and Hell Is Hot:" Cornel West, the Crisis of African-American Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Race 295 Peniel E. Joseph 17 Reading Cornel West as a Humanistic Scholar: Rhetoric and Practice 312 Clarence SholeJohnson 18 Cornel West's Representations of the Intellectual: But Some of Us Are Brave? 335 Nada Elia.