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Record Nr.

UNINA9910624305603321

Autore

Barnes Corey L.

Titolo

Alain Locke on the Theoretical Foundations for a Just and Successful Peace / / by Corey L. Barnes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031150043

9783031150036

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 pages)

Collana

African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora, , 2945-6002

Disciplina

405

191

Soggetti

Philosophy, American

African Americans

Culture

African Americans - History

American Philosophy

African American Culture

African-American History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.