Philosophic Values and World Citizenship

Jacoby Adeshei Carter; Leonard Harris

doi:10.5771/9781461634034

Summary

In Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond, Alain Locke—the central promoter of the Harlem Renaissance, America's most famous African American pragmatist, the cultural referent for Renaissance movements in the Caribbean and Africa—is placed in conversation with leading philosophers and cultural figures in the modern world. The contributors to this collection compare and contrast Locke's views on values, tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and American and world citizenship with philosophers and leading cultural figures ranging from Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, James Farmer, William James, John Dewey, José Vasconcelos, Hans G. Gadamer, Fredrick Nietzsche, Horace Kallen, Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) to the cultural and political figure of Barack Obama.

This important collection of essays eruditely presents Locke's views on moral, emotional, and aesthetic values; the principle of tolerance in managing value conflict; and his rhetorical style, which conveyed his views of cultural reciprocity and tolerance in the service of the values of citizenship and cosmopolitanism.

For teachers and students of contemporary debates in pragmatism, diversity, and value theory, these conversations define new and controversial terrain.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-4803-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-3403-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 253
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgements No access
3. Introduction No access
1. Moral Imperatives for World Order No access
2. Unity through Diversity: A Bahá'í Principle No access
3. One: Culture and the Kalos: Inquiry, Justice, and Value in Locke and Aristotle No access
4. Two: Aesthetic Evaluations of Realist Drama No access
5. Three: The Axiological Turn in Early Twentieth Century American Philosophy: Alain Locke and José Vasconcelos on Epistemology, Value, and the Emotions No access
6. Four: Conundrum of Cosmopolitanism and Race: The Great Debate between Alain Locke and William James No access
1. A Functional View of Value Ultimates No access
2. Five: A Functional Peace in This World: Farmer and Locke on the Challenges of a Truly Post-War Hope No access
3. Six: Beyond Repressive Tolerance: Alain Locke's Hermeneutics of Democracy and Tolerance in Conversation with Herbert Marcuse and H. G. Gadamer No access
4. Seven: Multicultural Education, Metaphysics, and Alain Locke's Post-Metaphysical Alternative No access
5. Eight: Unlikely Allies: Nietzsche, Locke, and Counter-Hegemonic Transformation of Consciousness No access
1. World Citizenship: Mirage or Reality? No access
2. Nine: Cosmopolitanism and Epideictic Rhetoric No access
3. Ten: What Difference does Difference Make? Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Birth of Cultural Pluralism No access
4. Eleven: Ethnocentric Representations and Being Human in a Multiethnic Global World: Alain Locke Critique No access
5. Twelve: Global Citizenship through Reciprocity: Alain Locke and Barack Obama's Pragmatist Politics No access
6. Thirteen: New Moral Imperatives for World Order: Alain Locke on Pluralism and Relativism No access
Bibliography No access Pages 235 - 244
Index No access Pages 245 - 248
About the Editors No access Pages 249 - 250
About the Contributors No access Pages 251 - 253