Cornel West A Critical Reader

This comprehensive text offers a systematic and thematic approach to West's philosophical work. It moves the reader through his distinctive form of prophetic pragmatism, his historicist and improvisational philosophy of religion, his socialist democratic and truncated Marxist political philosophy, and his reflections on a range of cultural issues.

George Yancy is McAnulty Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University. He is editor of African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations (1998), named an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice in 1999.

Acknowledgments

x

Notes on Contributors

xii

Cornel West: The Vanguard of Existential and Democratic Hope

1

(16)

George Yancy

Part I Pragmatism

17

(86)

Pragmatism Resurgent: A Reading of The American Evasion of Philosophy

19

(19)

Hilary W. Putnam

The Unacknowledged Fourth Tradition: An Essay on Nihilism, Decadence, and the Black Intellectual Tradition in the Existential Pragmatic Thought of Cornel West

38

(21)

Lewis R. Gordon

Cornel West on Prophesy, Pragmatism, and Philosophy: A Critical Evaluation of Prophetic Pragmatism

59

(24)

Clevis Headley

Which Pragmatism? Whose America?

83

(20)

Eduardo Mendieta

Part II Philosophy of Religion

103

(74)

``Let Suffering Speak:'' The Vocation of a Black Intellectual

105

(10)

James H. Cone

Religion and the Mirror of God: Historicism, Truth, and Religious Pluralism

115

(24)

George Yancy

Is Cornel West also Among the Theologians? The Shadow of the Divine in the Religious Thought of Cornel West

139

(15)

Victor Anderson

Cornel West's Improvisational Philosophy of Religion

154

(13)

M. Shawn Copeland

Existential Aptness and Epistemological Correctness: Cornel West and the Identity of the ``Lord''

167

(10)

Josiah Ulysses Younge III

Part III Political Philosophy

177

(116)

Cornel West on Gender and Family: Some Admiring and Critical Comments

179

(13)

Iris M. Young

Prophetic Pragmatism as Political Philosophy

192

(32)

Charles W. Mills

``Radical Historicism,'' Antiphilosophy, and Marxism

224

(21)

John P. Pittman

Cornel West and Afro-Nihilism: A Reconsideration

245

(16)

Floyd W. Hayes III

On Cornel West on W. E. B. Du Bois

261

(19)

Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr

The Political Philosophy and Humanism of Cornel West

280

(13)

Howard McGary, Jr

Part IV Cultural Studies

293

(53)

``It's Dark and Hell Is Hot:'' Cornel West, the Crisis of African-American Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Race

295

(17)

Peniel E. Joseph

Reading Cornel West as a Humanistic Scholar: Rhetoric and Practice

312

(23)

Clarence Shole Johnson

Cornel West's Representations of the Intellectual: But Some of Us Are Brave?

335

(11)

Nada Elia

Afterword

346

(17)

Cornel West

Select Bibliography of Cornel West's Works

363

(6)

Index

369

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Cornel West A Critical Reader

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