Alain Locke on the Theoretical Foundations for a Just and Successful Peace

Corey L. Barnes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 279 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-15003-6 (ISBN)

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Alain Locke is most known for his involvement in the Harlem Renaissance. However, he received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1918, and produced a very large corpus of philosophical work. His work shows him to have been a sophisticated philosopher who thought through practical and theoretical problems regarding the nature of cosmopolitanism, democracy, race, value, religion, art, and education. Although Locke's philosophical work has been discussed in parts, there has been no theorizing about how his different philosophical commitments fit together. In this book Corey L. Barnes begins to systematize Locke's philosophical thought, showing how his democratic theory, philosophy of race, and value theory are connected to and undergirded by a commitment to cosmopolitanism. In so doing, Barnes unearths aspects of Locke's thought-for example, his economic thinking-that have not been accorded attention and reimagines parts of his work about which have been theorized, allwhile bringing Locke into current debates about each subject.

Corey L. Barnes is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, USA.

1. Introduction.- 2. One Cosmopolitan World, or None.- 3. A Theory of True Democracy.- 4. Impediments to True Democracy and a Cosmopolitan World.- 5. A Theory of Race for Democracy and Cosmopolitanism.- 6. A Theory of Value for Democracy and Cosmopolitanism.- 7. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	08.11.2022
Reihe/Serie	African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora
Zusatzinfo	X, 279 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	508 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Alain Locke • Cosmopolitanism • Democracy • Harlem Renaissance • Martin Delany • pluralism • Race and racism • Ronald de Sousa • W.E.B. Du Bois
ISBN-10	3-031-15003-1 / 3031150031
ISBN-13	978-3-031-15003-6 / 9783031150036
Zustand	Neuware