Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
Part 1 Value
Moral Imperatives for World Order Alain Locke 1
Unity through Diversity: A Bahá'í Principle Alain Locke 2
1 Culture and the Kalos: Inquiry, Justice, and Value in Locke and Aristotle Rose Cherubin 7
2 Aesthetic Evaluations of Realist Drama Erin Kealey 21
3 The Axiological Turn in Early Twentieth Century American Philosophy: Alain Locke and José Vasconcelos on Epistemology, Value, and the Emotions Grant Silva 31
4 Conundrum of Cosmopolitanism and Race: The Great Debate between Alain Locke and William James Leonard Harris 57
Part 2 Tolerance
A Functional View of Value Ultimates Alain Locke 77
5 A Functional Peace in This World: Farmer and Locke on the Challenges of a Truly Post-War Hope Greg Moses 83
6 Beyond Repressive Tolerance: Alain Locke's Hermeneutics of Democracy and Tolerance in Conversation with Herbert Marcuse H.G. Gadamer Arnold L. Farr 97
7 Multicultural Education, Metaphysics, and Alain Locke's Post-Metaphysical Alternative Christopher J. Collins 111
8 Unlikely Allies: Nietzsche, Locke, and Counter-Hegemonic Transformation of Consciousness A. Todd Franklin 123
Part 3 Cosmopolitanism
World Citizenship: Mirage or Reality? Alain Locke 139
9 Cosmopolitanism and Epideicitic Rhetoric Robert Danisch 147
10 What Difference Does Difference Make? Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Birth of Cultural Pluralism David Weinfeld 165
11 Ethnocentric Representations and Being Human in a Multiethnic Global World: Alain Locke Critique Chielozona Eze 189
12 Global Citizenship through Reciprocity: Alain Locke and Barack Obama's Pragmatist Politics Terrance MacMullan 203
13 New Moral Imperatives for World Order: Alain Locke on Pluralism and Relativism Jacoby Adeshei Carter 217
Bibliography 235
Index 245
About the Editors 249
About the Contributors 251