Cornel West and the Politics of Prophetic PragmatismUniversity of Illinois Press, 2000 - 239 pages "Wood evaluates the political consequences of a shift in West's position from an earlier, revolutionary socialist stance to a later, progressive reformist one. Wood shows how West's subsequent reworking of Marxism supports his transition from a socialist to a progressivist politics."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
of Liberation Theology | 19 |
Race Class Power | 41 |
Racism and the Struggle for WorkingClass Democracy | 63 |
The Pragmatic Concepts of Truth Reality and Politics | 87 |
The Past Present and Future of American Pragmatism | 110 |
Saving the Nation in the Era of Transnational Capitalism | 129 |
Prophetic Pragmatism and the American Evasion | 148 |
The Future of Revolutionary Democratic Politics | 182 |
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