Frederick Douglass A Critical Reader

In this powerful volume, 15 leading American philosophers examine and critically reassess Douglass's significance for contemporary social and political thought. Philosophically, Douglass's work sought to establish better ways of thinking, especially in the light of his convictions about our humanity and democratic legitimacy - convictions that were culturally and historically shaped by his experience of, and struggle against, the institution of American slavery. Contributors include Bernard R. Boxill, Angela Y. Davis, Lewis R. Gordon, Leonard Harris, Tommy L. Lott, Howard McGary, and John P. Pittman.

Bill E. Lawson is Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. His area of research is African-American Social and Political Philosophy and the theory of social contract. He has published numerous articles as well as two books, The Underclass Question, an anthology of writings by African-American philosophers on the issue of the "urban underclass", and Between Slavery and Freedom (with Howard McGary), an examination of ethical issues in the American slavery experience.

Frank M. Kirkland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and at the Graduate Centre, both of the City University of New York. He has published a variety of scholarly articles on Kant, Hegel, and Husserl, as well as on the urban underclass and the relation of modernity to African American life. He has also edited a collection of essays entitled Phenomenology, East and West. He is currently completing a scholarly monograph, Hegel and Husserl: Idealist Meditations.

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Racial Assimilation And Emigration
Douglass against the Emigrationists
Douglass on Racial Assimilation and Racial Institutions
Douglass's Assimilationism
Natural Law And American's Founding Documents
Natural Law in the Constitutional Thought of Frederick Douglass
Whose Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass and 'Original Intent'
Enlightenment And Enslavement
The Claims of Frederick Douglass Philosophically Considered
The Grammar of Civilization: Douglass and Crummell on Doing Things with Words
Moral Suasion And Rebellion
Douglass as an Existentialist
Honor of Insurrection or A short Story about why John Brown (with David Walker's Spirit) was Right and Frederick Douglass (with Benjamin Banneker's Spirit) was Wrong
Enslavement, Moral Suasion, and Struggles for Recognition: Frederick Douglass's Answer to the question - 'What is Enlightenment?'
Incarcerating And Lynching Black Bodies
Douglass on the Myth of the Black Rapist
From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prisons: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Release System
Douglass (1818-95): One Hundred Years Later
Frederick Douglass and Racial Progress: Does Race Matter at the Bottom of the Well?
Selected Bibliography
Index
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