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AMERICAN EVASION OF PHILOSOPHY
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| By: |
West |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0299119645 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780299119645 |
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 April, 1989 |
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Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West s basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism. John Dewey is the central figure in West s pantheon of pragmatists, but he treats as well such varied mid-century representatives of the tradition as Sidney Hook, C. Wright Mills, W. E. B. Du Bois, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Lionel Trilling. West s "genealogy" is, ultimately, a very personal work, for it is imbued throughout with the author s conviction that a thorough reexamination of American pragmatism may help inspire and instruct contemporary efforts to remake and reform American society and culture."West . . . may well be the pre-eminent African American intellectual of our generation." The Nation"The American Evasion of Philosophy is a highly intelligent and provocative book. Cornel West gives us illuminating readings of the political thought of Emerson and James; provides a penetrating critical assessment of Dewey, his central figure; and offers a brilliant interpretation appreciative yet far from uncritical of the contemporary philosopher and neo-pragmatist Richard Rorty. . . . What shines through, throughout the work, is West's firm commitment to a radical vision of a philosophic discourse as inextricably linked to cultural criticism and political engagement." Paul S. Boyer, professor emeritus of history, University of Wisconsin Madison. Wisconsin Project on American WritersFrank Lentricchia, General Editor" |
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Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West s basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism. John Dewey is the central figure in West s pantheon of pragmatists, but he treats as well such varied mid-century representatives of the tradition as Sidney Hook, C. Wright Mills, W. E. B. Du Bois, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Lionel Trilling. West s "genealogy" is, ultimately, a very personal work, for it is imbued throughout with the author s conviction that a thorough reexamination of American pragmatism may help inspire and instruct contemporary efforts to remake and reform American society and culture."West . . . may well be the pre-eminent African American intellectual of our generation." The Nation"The American Evasion of Philosophy is a highly intelligent and provocative book. Cornel West gives us illuminating readings of the political thought of Emerson and James; provides a penetrating critical assessment of Dewey, his central figure; and offers a brilliant interpretation appreciative yet far from uncritical of the contemporary philosopher and neo-pragmatist Richard Rorty. . . . What shines through, throughout the work, is West's firm commitment to a radical vision of a philosophic discourse as inextricably linked to cultural criticism and political engagement." Paul S. Boyer, professor emeritus of history, University of Wisconsin Madison. Wisconsin Project on American WritersFrank Lentricchia, General Editor" |
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US |
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University of Wisconsin Press |
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