Cornel West A Critical Reader [Paperback]

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.Acknowledgements.

Notes on Contributors.

Cornel West: The Vanguard of Existential and Democratic Hope: George Yancy.

Part I: Pragmatism:.

1. Pragmatism Resurgent: A Reading of The American Evasion of Philosophy: Hilary W. Putnam.

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

3. Cornel West on Prophesy, Pragmatism, and Philosophy: A Critical Evaluation of Prophetic Pragmatism: Clevis Headley.

4. Which Pragmatism? Whose America?: Eduardo Mendieta.

Part II: Philosophy of Religion:.

5. Let Suffering Speak : The Vocation of a Black Intellectual: James H. Cone.

6. Religion and the Mirror of God: Historicism, Truth and Religious Pluralism: George Yancy.

7. Is Cornel West Also Among the Theologians? The Shadow of the Divine in the Religious Thought of Cornel West: Victor Anderson.

8. Cornel West's Improvisational Philosophy of Religion : M. Shawn Copeland.

9. Existential Aptness and Epistemological Correctness: Cornel West and the Identity of the Lord : Josiah Ulysses Young, III.

Part III: Political Philosophy:.

10. Cornel West on Gender and Family: Some Admiring and Critical Comments: Iris M. Young.

11. Prophetic Pragmatism as Political Philosophy : CharlS²