The Critical Pragmatism of Alain Locke A Reader on Value Theory, Aesthetics, Community, Culture, Race, and Education

by Harris, Leonard; Fraser, Nancy; Franke, Astrid; Scholz, Sally J.; Helbling, Mark; Green, Judith M.; Shusterman, Richard; Singer, Beth J.; Duran, Jane; Stewart, Earl L.; Keaveny, Richard; Vanterpool, Rudolph V.; Moses, Greg; Molesworth, Charles; Mitchell,

• ISBN13: 9780847688074
• ISBN10: 0847688070
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-22
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In its comprehensive overview of Alain Locke's pragmatist philosophy this book captures the radical implications of Locke's approach within pragmatism, the critical temper embedded in Locke's works, the central role of power and empowerment of the oppress

Author Biography

Rudolph A. Cain is professor of human services and education at Empire State College. Blanche Radford Curry is an associate professor of philosophy at Fayetteville State University. Jane Duran is a fellow in the Department of Philosophy and lecturer in the humanities at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Astrid Franke is an assistant professor of American studies at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universitat in Frankfurt. Nancy Fraser is professor of political science at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. Segun Gbadegesin is professor and chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Howard University. Judith M. Green is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Fordham University. Talmadge C. Guy is assistant professor of adult education in the Department of Adult Education at the University of Georgia. LaVerne Gyant is director of the Center for Black Studies and assistant professor in continuing adult education at Northern Illinois University. Leonard Harris is professor of philosophy at Purdue University. Clevis Headley is an associate professor of philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. Mark Helbling is associate professor of American studies at the University of Hawaii. Richard Keaveny holds a master's degree in African American history from the University of Western Ontario. Verner D. Mitchell is an associate professor of English at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Charles Molesworth is professor of English at Queens College, New York. Greg Moses is assistant professor of philosophy at Marist College. Sally J. Scholz is an assistant professor of philosophy at Villanova University. Richard Shusterman is a professor of philosophy and chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Temple University. Beth J. Singer is professor emerita of Brooklyn College. Earl L. Stewart is a professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Kenneth W. Stikkers is chair and professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University. Stephen Lester Thompson is an assistant professor of philosophy at Howard University. Rudolph V. Vanterpool is professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy of California State University, Dominguez Hills. He is also a faculty associate in the department of Africana Studies. Paul Weithman is an assistant professor of philosophy at Notre Dame University.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
PART I. CRITICAL PRAGMATISM AND VALUE THEORY
Another Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical ``Race'' Theory, and the Politics of Culture	3	(18)
Nancy Fraser
Struggling with Stereotypes: The Problems of Representing a Collective Identity	21	(18)
Astrid Franke
Values and Language: Toward a Theory of Translation for Alain Locke	39	(14)
Sally J. Scholz
African Art and the Harlem Renaissance: Alain Locke Melville Herskovits, Roger Fry, and Albert C. Barnes	53	(32)
Mark Helbling
Alain Locke's Multicultural Philosophy of Value: A Transformative Guide for the Twenty-First Century	85	(12)
Judith M. Green
PART II. AESTHETICS
Pragmatist Aestetics: Roots and Radicalism	97	(14)
Richard Shusterman
Alain Locke, Essentialism, and the Notion of a Black Aesthetic	111	(16)
Jane Duran
Earl L. Stewart
Aesthetics and the Issue of Identity	127	(14)
Richard Keaveny
Open-Textured Aesthetic Boundaries: Matters of Art, Race, and Culture	141	(20)
Rudolph V. Vanterpool
PART III. COMMUNITY AND CULTURE
Two Lockes, Two Keys: Tolerance and Reciprocity in a Culture of Democracy	161	(14)
Greg Moses
Alain Locke and Walt Whitman: Manifestos and National Identity	175	(16)
Charles Molesworth
Alain Locke: Philosophical ``Midwife'' of the Harlem Renaissance	191	(8)
Verner D. Mitchell
Alain Locke: A Sociocultural Conception of Race	199	(10)
Clevis Headley
Instrumental Relativism and Cultivated Pluralism: Alain Locke and Philosophy's Quest for a Common World	209	(10)
Kenneth W. Stikkers
PART IV. EDIFICATION AND EDUCATION
Adult Education and Democratic Values: Alain Locke on the Nature and Purpose of Adult Education for African Americans	219	(16)
Talmadge C. Guy
Alain Locke and His Contributions to Black Studies	235	(16)
LaVerne Gyant
Andragogy and the Education of African American Adults	251	(12)
Rudolph A. Cain
Alain Locke: A Paradigm for Transformative Education---Addressing the Relationship of Knowledge to Social Concerns	263	(14)
Blanche Radford Curry
PART V. PARADOXES, DILEMMAS, AND CRITIQUES
Values, Imperatives, and the Imperative of Democratic Values	277	(14)
Segun Gbadegesin
Meaning in an Epistemic System	291	(20)
Stephen Lester Thompson
Alain Locke, Critical Relativism, and Multicultural Education	311	(16)
Paul Weithman
PART VI. POSTSCRIPT
Alain Locke Remembered	327	(8)
Beth J. Singer
Select Bibliography	335	(10)
Index	345	(8)
About the Contributors	353