African-American Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions / Edition 1

by John Pittman

Overview

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415916400
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/03/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Pittman teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at CUNY.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS: SECTION ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS: 1. African-American Philosophy? - K. Anthony Appia; 2. African Philosophical Tradition: A Case Study of Akan - Kwasi Wiredu; 3. African, African American, Africana Philosophy - Lucius Outlaw; 4. The Horror of Tradition or How to burn Babylon and Build Benin While Reading A Preface to a Twenty-Volume Suicide Note - Leonard Harris; SECTION TWO: THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN TRADITION: 5. Two Traditions in African American Political Philosophy - Bernard Boxill; 6. Modernity and Intellectual Life in Black - Frank M. Kirkland; 7. Du Bois on the Invention of Race - Tommy L. Lott; SECTION THREE: RACISM, IDENTITY, AND SOCIAL LIFE: 8. Xenophobia and Kantian Rationalism - Adrian M.S. Piper; 9. Moral Deference - Laurence Thomas; 10. Race, Class, and the Social Construction of Self-Respect - Michele M. Moody-Adams; 11. The Role Model Argument and Faculty Diversity - Anita L. Allen; 12. Alienation and the African-American Experience - Howard McGary