Migration and Residential Mobility: MacRo and Micro Approaches - Couverture souple

University Of Wisconsin Press

 
9780299134945: Migration and Residential Mobility: MacRo and Micro Approaches
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0299134946 ISBN 13 : 9780299134945
Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 1993

Synopsis

Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West's basic task in this ambitious enterprise is to chart the emergence, development, decline, and recent resurgence of American pragmatism. John Dewey is the central figure in West's pantheon of pragmatists, but he treats as well such varied mid-century representatives of the tradition as Sidney Hook, C. Wright Mills, W. E. B. Du Bois, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Lionel Trilling. West's "genealogy" is, ultimately, a very personal work, for it is imbued throughout with the author's conviction that a thorough reexamination of American pragmatism may help inspire and instruct contemporary efforts to remake and reform American society and culture.

"West . . . may well be the pre-eminent African American intellectual of our generation."--The Nation

"The American Evasion of Philosophy is a highly intelligent and provocative book. Cornel West gives us illuminating readings of the political thought of Emerson and James; provides a penetrating critical assessment of Dewey, his central figure; and offers a brilliant interpretation--appreciative yet far from uncritical--of the contemporary philosopher and neo-pragmatist Richard Rorty. . . . What shines through, throughout the work, is West's firm commitment to a radical vision of a philosophic discourse as inextricably linked to cultural criticism and political engagement."--Paul S. Boyer, professor emeritus of history, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Wisconsin Project on American Writers

Frank Lentricchia, General Editor


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À propos de l?auteur

Martin Cadwallader is professor of geography and dean of the graduate school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Analytical Urban Geography: Spatial Patterns and Theories.

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Éditeur
University of Wisconsin Press
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0299134946
ISBN 13 
9780299134945
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
293
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0299134903 ISBN 13 :  9780299134907
Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 1993
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