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7In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in AmericaHarvard University Press. 2009.The Souls of Black Folk is Du Bois’s outstanding contribution to modern political theory. It is his still influential answer to the question, “What kind of politics should African Americans conduct to counter white supremacy?” Here, in a major addition to American studies and the first book-length philosophical treatment of Du Bois’s thought, Robert Gooding-Williams examines the conceptual foundations of Du Bois’s interpretation of black politics. For Du Bois, writing in a segregated America, a …Read more
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8Nietzsche and Historical UnderstandingIn Lydia Goehr & Jonathan Gilmore (eds.), A Companion to Arthur C. Danto, Wiley. 2021.Arthur Danto invokes his philosophy of history to authorize a reading of Nietzsche that his philosophy of history nevertheless undermines. Danto's Nietzsche was a system builder, for, “if only tacitly,” he submitted his thinking to the demands of the philosophical “discipline,” “where there is no such thing as an isolated solution to an isolated problem”. In his Analytical Philosophy of History, Danto invents a character he dubs “the Ideal Chronicler.” Danto's notion of a narrative sentence clar…Read more
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11Comments on Bernd Magnus's “A Bridge Too Far: Asceticism and Eternal Recurrence”Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (S1): 113-118. 1999.
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31Review Essay: Jason Stanley's Theory of Propaganda and IdeologyConstellations 24 (2): 267-273. 2017.
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49Beauty as PropagandaPhilosophical Topics 49 (1): 13-33. 2021.This paper considers W.E.B. Du Bois’s short story, “Jesus Christ in Texas,” in the perspective of his analysis of the concept of beauty in Darkwater (1920); his exposition of the idea that “all art is propaganda” in “Criteria of Negro Art” (1926); and his moral psychology of white supremacy. On my account, Du Bois holds that beautiful art can help to undermine white supremacy by using representations of moral goodness to expand the white supremacist’s ethical horizons. To defend this thesis, he …Read more
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34Revisiting the Ferguson Report: Antiblack Concepts and the Practice of PolicingCritical Inquiry 47 (S2). 2021.
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59What is Race? Four Philosophical Views, by Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, Chike Jeffers, and Quayshawn SpencerMind 131 (521): 309-317. 2022.
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49Democracy’s History of Inegalitarianism: Symposium on Michael Hanchard, The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy, Princeton University Press, 2018, 272 pgs (review)Political Theory 009059172090186. forthcoming.
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Race, Multiculturalism and DemocracyIn Bernard Boxill (ed.), Race and Racism, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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451. The Du Bois–Washington Debate and the Idea of DignityIn Brandon M. Terry & Tommie Shelby (eds.), To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr, Harvard University Press. pp. 19-34. 2018.
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22Review of will Dudley, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Philosophy: Thinking Freedom (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (2). 2003.
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11Special section: Lorenzo Simpson' s The Unfinished Project: Sensibilities in conflictPhilosophy and Social Criticism 33 (3): 275-287. 2007.In the remarks that follow I concentrate on Lorenzo Simpson's two books, Technology, Time and the Conversations of Modernity and The Unfinished Project: Toward a Postmetaphysical Humanism. Common to both works — what unites them, I believe — is a philosophical orientation that has been deeply influenced by Gadamerian hermeneutics. I begin with a discussion of UP.
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19Zarathustra Contra Zarathustra (review)International Studies in Philosophy 35 (4): 192-193. 2003.
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27Zarathustra's descent: Incipit tragoedia, incipit parodiaJournal of Nietzsche Studies 9 50-76. 1995.
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24Zarathustra’s Dionysian ModernismStanford University Press. 2001.In arguing that Nietzsche's _Thus Spoke Zarathustra_ is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism—that is, of the possibility of radical cultural change through the creation of new values—the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy. Nietzsche takes up the problem of modernism by inventing Zarathustra, a self-styled cultural innovator who aspires to subvert the culture of modernity by creating new values. By showing how Zarathustra can become a creator o…Read more
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1"Philosophy of History and Social Critique in The Souls of Black Folk"Sur les Sciences Sociales (Social Science Information 26. 1987.
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21Special section: Lorenzo Simpson's The Unfinished Project: `Y'all don't hear me now': On Lorenzo Simpson's The Unfinished ProjectPhilosophy and Social Criticism 33 (3): 289-299. 2007.
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12Look, a Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture and PoliticsRoutledge. 2005.First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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22Keeping Faith (review)Philosophical Review 104 (4): 601-603. 1995.This volume brings together a wide-ranging collection of seventeen essays, most of which were published elsewhere during the last ten or so years and some of which appear here in revised versions. Its subtitle is somewhat misleading, because Keeping Faith is neither a sustained philosophical discussion of American racial identities nor an extended argument to the effect that some noteworthy assumptions about race have helped to shape the history of American philosophical thought. Still, many of …Read more
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36Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in AmericaPhilosophical Review 104 (4): 601. 1995.This volume brings together a wide-ranging collection of seventeen essays, most of which were published elsewhere during the last ten or so years and some of which appear here in revised versions. Its subtitle is somewhat misleading, because Keeping Faith is neither a sustained philosophical discussion of American racial identities nor an extended argument to the effect that some noteworthy assumptions about race have helped to shape the history of American philosophical thought. Still, many of …Read more