Cornel West and Philosophy

Clarence Sholé Johnson is Professor of Philosophy at Middle Tennessee State University. He specializes in early modern philosophy, ethics and Africana and African American philosophy.

"...a formidable work of scholarship. As a philosophical scholar, Johnson has produced a readerly text that captures the reader's attention from beginning to end." -- Floyd W. Hayes, III, The APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience"Nowhere in the literature on West -- and certainly not in West's writings themselves -- is there nearly such a good statement of West's views or one that organizes them into such a readily comprehensible structure. So, for someone who is looking for a good clear understanding of what really drives West's apparently unconnected views on so many matters, this volume cannot be beaten." -- Amazon.com". . .the best available introduction to West's thought." -- Amazon.com"...a welcome and intelligent assessment of West's philosophy and ethics and their engagement with issues of social justice and race." -- Seminary Co-op Bookstore Review"...a formidable work of scholarship. As a philosophical scholar, Johnson has produced a readerly text that captures the reader's attention from beginning to end." -- Floyd W. Hayes, III, APA Newsletter on Philosophy andthe Black Experience

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Cornel West's Philosophical Writings and Social Justice 1. Pragmatism and Existentialism 2. Humanistic Scholarship and Praxis 3. Black Prophetic Christianity and Marxist Social Thought 4. Black-Jewish Conflict and Dialogue 5. Affirmative Action and Proto-Marxism 6. Modernity, Philosophy, and Race(ism) Postscript: West, Public Intellectualism, and the Harvard Controversy Notes Bibliography Index