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Philosophic values and world citizenship : Locke to Obama and beyond / edited by Jacoby Adeshei Carter and Leonard Harris.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World citizenship.
- Citizenship.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Cosmopolitanism.
- Toleration.
- Locke, Alain, 1885-1954--Philosophy.
- Locke, Alain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (274 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham [Md.] : Lexington Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Alain Locke, the central promoter of the Harlem Renaissance, is placed in conversation with leading philosophers and cultural figures in the modern world, from Aristotle to Obama. For teachers and students of contemporary debates in pragmatism, diversity, and value theory, these conversations' define new-and controversial-terrain.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Value
- Moral imperatives for world order / Alain Locke
- Unity through diversity : a Bahá'í principle / Alain Locke
- Culture and the Kalos : inquiry, justice, and value in Locke and Aristotle / Rose Cherubin
- Aesthetic evaluations of realist drama / Erin Kealey
- The axiological turn in early twentieth century American philosophy : Alain Locke and José Vasconcelos on epistemology, value, and the emotions / Grant Silva
- Conundrum of cosmopolitanism and race : the great debate between Alain Locke and William James / Leonard Harris
- Pt. 2. Tolerance
- A functional view of value ultimates / Alain Locke
- A functional peace in this world : Farmer and Locke on the challenges of a truly post-war hope / Greg Moses
- Beyond repressive tolerance : Alain Locke's hermeneutics of democracy and tolerance in conversation with Herbert Marcuse and H.G. Gadamer / Arnold L. Farr
- Multicultural education, metaphysics, and Alain Locke's post-metaphysical alternative / Christopher J. Collins
- Unlikely allies : Nietzsche, Locke, and counter-hegemonic transformation of consciousness / A. Todd Franklin
- Pt. 3. Cosmopolitanism
- World citizenship : mirage or reality? / Alain Locke
- Cosmopolitanism and epideictic rhetoric / Robert Danisch
- What difference does difference make? Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the birth of cultural pluralism / David Weinfeld
- Ethnocentric representations and being human in a multiethnic global world : Alain Locke critique / Chielozona Eze
- Global citizenship through reciprocity : Alain Locke and Barack Obama's pragmatist politics / Terrance MacMullan
- New moral imperatives for world order : Alain Locke on pluralism and relativism / Jacoby Adeshei Carter.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-30083-0
- 1-4616-3403-2
- OCLC:
- 851972047
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