Revolution of Conscience Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence

by Moses, Greg

• ISBN13: 9781572304079
• ISBN10: 1572304073
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-09
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Martin Luther King, Jr., has been widely studied as a preacher, an activist, and an orator, but rarely as an intellectual. This groundbreaking book situates King as one of the most important social and political philosophers of our time, arguing that King's systematic logic of nonviolence is at the same time radically new and deeply rooted in African American intellectual history. Presenting a comprehensive genealogy of King's thought, Moses traces the influence of key African American thinkers and shows how King's concepts of equality, structure, direct action, love, and justice can be seen as strands of a coherent philosophical whole.
 

Author Biography

Greg Moses, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Marist College. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, and Austin, Texas. A former journalist, he spent 10 years as a contributing writer at the Texas Observer.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction: The Logic of Nonviolence

Equality

Structure and Race

Structure and Class

Nonviolent Direct Action

Justice and Love

Appendix: A Chronology of Events

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