Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope : A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Terry, Brandon M.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (558 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2025.

Summary:

The romantic vision of the civil rights movement is exhausted, and its inverse, Afropessimism, 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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Part One: A Critical Theory of Exemplarity, Judgment, and Narrative

1. On Exemplarity and Disclosure: The Experience of Exemplarity

2. Between Aesthetics and History: Kant and the Problem of Judgment

3. The Defeated Cause: Judgment, History, and Narrative

Part Two: Romance

4. The Romance of Civil Rights: From Red Sea to Ruins

5. The Tangible Ruins of Our Present: The Crisis of Authority in Black Political Life

6. Beyond Silence and Romance: Rawls, Mills, and the Tasks of Political Philosophy and Critique

Part Three: After Romance

7. The Changing Same: Ironic History and Its Politics in African American Critical Thought

8. The Tragic Vision: The Meaning of Long Civil Rights Movement History

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-674-29970-1

0-674-29971-X

OCLC:

1517013173