Cornel West, The Cornel West Reader (New York: Basic Books, 1999)
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: To Be Human, Modern and American
I: Autobiographical Interlude
- 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
IV: Progressive Marxist Theory
- The Indispensability Yet Insufficiency of Marxist Theory
- Frederic Jameson’s American Marxism
- Race and Social Theory
V: Radical Democratic Politics
- The Role of Law in Progressive Politics
- The Political Intellectual
- A World of Ideas
- The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual
- American Progressivism Reoriented
- Parents and National Survival
- On the 1980s
- Michael Harrington, Democratic Socialist
VI:…
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