Cornel West: The Politics of Redemption

by Rosemary Cowan

Overview

In this new book Rosemary Cowan provides a clear and highly accessible introduction to the work of Cornel West, a provocative and eclectic thinker who has emerged as one of America's foremost public intellectuals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745624938
Publisher:	Polity Press
Publication date:	12/13/2002
Series:	Key Contemporary Thinkers
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.05(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Rosemary Cowan has taught political theory and American politics at California State University, Stanislaus

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

Chapter 1. Reading West.

Chapter 2. Race and American Democracy.

Chapter 3. Jazz Philosophy: Westian Pragmatism.

Chapter 4. 'Prophetic' Christianity.

Chapter 5. Re-conceptualizing Marxism: West's Radicalism.

Chapter 6. The Multicontextual Public Intellectual.

Chapter 7. The Politics of ‘Conversion' West's ‘Love Ethic'.

Chapter 8. Achieving Democracy: Applying the Love Ethic.

Conclusion: Creative Tensions.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index

Editorial Reviews

"Cornel West: The Politics of Redemption is a bold and courageous text that insightfully defends the thesis that liberation theology is at the core of West’s synoptic and existentially engaged philosophical corpus. Rejecting a narrow conception of theology, Cowan provides a hermeneutic lens through which to make sense of West’s pragmatist and Marxist leanings, and his prophetic Christianity. This book is a must read." George Yancy, McAnulty Fellow at Duquesne University

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