From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute) ISBN-13: 9780195109153

ISBN-13: 9780195109153

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Patterson, Anita Haya

Details: This book traces a provocative line from Emersons work on race, reform, and identity to work by three influential African- American thinkers–W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and Cornel West–each of whom offers subtle engagement with both the tradition of written protest and the critique of liberalism Emerson shaped. Emerson has been cast in recent debate as either an antinomian or an ideologue–as either subversive of institutional controls or indebted to capitalism. Here, Patterson contributes a more nuanced view, probing Emersons record and its cultural and historical matrix to document a fundamental rhetoric of contradiction–a strategic aligning of opposed political concepts–that enabled him to both affirm and critique elements of the liberal democratic model. Drawing richly on topics in political philosophy, law, religion, and cultural history, Patterson examines the nature and implications of Emersons contradictory rhetoric in parts I and II. In part III she
considers Emersons legacy from the perspective of African-American intellectual history, identifying fresh continuities and crucial discontinuities between the canonical strain of protest writing Emerson helped establish and African-American literary and philosophical traditions.

Release Date: 26-06-1997

Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.3 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English

Part Number: 25 halftones

Edition: 1

Number Of Pages: 272