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Preface | xiii | |
Introduction: To Be Human, Modern and American | xv | |
I | Autobiographical Prelude | |
1 | The Making of an American Radical Democrat of African Descent | 3 |
2 | On My Intellectual Vocation | 19 |
3 | Sing a Song | 34 |
II | Modernity and Its Discontents | |
4 | The Ignoble Paradox of Modernity | 51 |
5 | Race and Modernity | 55 |
6 | Black Strivings in a Twilight Civilization | 87 |
7 | The New Cultural Politics of Difference | 119 |
III | American Pragmatism | |
8 | Why Pragmatism? | 143 |
9 | On Prophetic Pragmatism | 149 |
10 | Pragmatism and the Sense of the Tragic | 174 |
11 | The Limits of Neopragmatism | 183 |
12 | Nietzsche's Prefiguration of Postmodern American Philosophy | 188 |
IV | Progressive Marxist Theory | |
13 | The Indispensability Yet Insufficiency of Marxist Theory | 213 |
14 | Fredric Jameson's American Marxism | 231 |
15 | Race and Social Theory | 251 |
V | Radical Democratic Politics | |
16 | The Role of Law in Progressive Politics | 269 |
17 | The Political Intellectual | 278 |
18 | A World of Ideas | 294 |
19 | The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual | 302 |
20 | American Progressivism Reoriented | 316 |
21 | Parents and National Survival | 333 |
22 | On the 1980s | 344 |
23 | Michael Harrington, Democratic Socialist | 348 |
VI | Prophetic Christian Thought | |
24 | The Crisis in Contemporary American Religion | 357 |
25 | The Historicist Turn in Philosophy of Religion | 360 |
26 | Religion and the Left | 372 |
27 | On Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's In Memory of Her | 380 |
28 | On Leszek Kolakowski | 387 |
29 | On Liberation Theology: Segundo and Hinkelammert | 393 |
30 | Christian Love and Heterosexism | 401 |
31 | A Philosophical View of Easter | 415 |
32 | On Gibson Winter's Ecological Ecumenism | 421 |
33 | Prophetic Christian as Organic Intellectual: Martin Luther King, Jr. | 425 |
34 | Subversive Joy and Revolutionary Patience in Black Christianity | 435 |
VII | The Arts | |
35 | Critical Reflections on Art | 443 |
36 | Horace Pippin's Challenge to Art Criticism | 447 |
37 | Race and Architecture | 456 |
38 | The Spirituals as Lyrical Poetry | 463 |
39 | In Memory of Marvin Gaye | 471 |
40 | On Afro-American Music: From Bebop to Rap | 474 |
41 | On Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror | 485 |
42 | On Walt Whitman | 489 |
VIII | Race and Difference | |
43 | On Affirmative Action | 495 |
44 | On Black-Brown Relations | 499 |
45 | On Black Sexuality | 514 |
46 | On Black Nationalism | 521 |
47 | Tensions with Jewish Friends and Foes | 530 |
48 | On Jackie Robinson | 536 |
49 | On Julianne Malveaux | 539 |
50 | Conversation with bell hooks | 541 |
IX | Postscript | |
51 | Chekhov, Coltrane and Democracy | 551 |
Notes | 565 | |
Index | 593 |
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