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Shattered dreams, infinite hope : a tragic vision of the civil rights movement / Brandon M. Terry.
Van Pelt Library E185.61 .T325 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Terry, Brandon M., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States.
- Civil rights movements--United States.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Collective memory--Political aspects--United States.
- Collective memory.
- Civil rights--Philosophy.
- Civil rights.
- Civil rights movements--United States--Historiography.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Civil rights movements--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 549 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "The romantic vision of the civil rights movement is exhausted, and its inverse, Afro-Pessimism, offers a self-defeating irony. To resolve this impasse, Brandon Terry transforms the standard story of America's democratic awakening through a tragic reading of the civil rights movement: as an ongoing struggle still worthy of affirmation."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part One. A Critical Theory of Exemplarity and Judgment
- On Exemplarity and Disclosure: The Experience of Exemplarity
- Between Aesthetics and History: Kant and the Problem of Judgment
- The Defeated Cause: Judgment, History, and Narrative
- Part Two. Romance
- The Romance of Civil Rights: from Red Sea to ruins
- The tangible ruins of our present: the crisis of authority in Black political life
- Beyond silence and romance: Rawls, Mills, and the tasks of political philosophy and critique
- Part Three. After Romance
- The Changing Same: Ironic History and Its Politics in African American Critical Thought
- The Tragic Vision: the meaning of Long Civil Rights Movement history
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version Terry, Brandon M. Shattered dreams, infinite hope
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780674271289
- 0674271289
- OCLC:
- 1514886947
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000290593
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