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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: To Be Human, Modern and American | |
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| Autobiographical Prelude | |
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| The Making of an American Radical Democrat of African Descent | |
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| On My Intellectual Vocation | |
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| Sing a Song | |
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| Modernity and Its Discontents | |
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| The Ignoble Paradox of Modernity | |
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| Race and Modernity | |
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| Black Strivings in a Twilight Civilization | |
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| The New Cultural Politics of Difference | |
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| American Pragmatism | |
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| Why Pragmatism? | |
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| On Prophetic Pragmatism | |
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| Pragmatism and the Sense of the Tragic | |
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| The Limits of Neopragmatism | |
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| Nietzsche's Prefiguration of Postmodern American Philosophy | |
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| Progressive Marxist Theory | |
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| The Indispensability Yet Insufficiency of Marxist Theory | |
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| Fredric Jameson's American Marxism | |
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| Race and Social Theory | |
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| Radical Democratic Politics | |
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| The Role of Law in Progressive Politics | |
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| The Political Intellectual | |
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| A World of Ideas | |
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| The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual | |
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| American Progressivism Reoriented | |
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| Parents and National Survival | |
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| On the 1980s | |
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| Michael Harrington, Democratic Socialist | |
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| Prophetic Christian Thought | |
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| The Crisis in Contemporary American Religion | |
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| The Historicist Turn in Philosophy of Religion | |
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| Religion and the Left | |
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| On Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's In Memory of Her | |
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| On Leszek Kolakowski | |
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| On Liberation Theology: Segundo and Hinkelammert | |
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| Christian Love and Heterosexism | |
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| A Philosophical View of Easter | |
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| On Gibson Winter's Ecological Ecumenism | |
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| Prophetic Christian as Organic Intellectual: Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
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| Subversive Joy and Revolutionary Patience in Black Christianity | |
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| The Arts | |
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| Critical Reflections on Art | |
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| Horace Pippin's Challenge to Art Criticism | |
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| Race and Architecture | |
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| The Spirituals as Lyrical Poetry | |
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| In Memory of Marvin Gaye | |
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| On Afro-American Music: From Bebop to Rap | |
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| On Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror | |
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| On Walt Whitman | |
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| Race and Difference | |
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| On Affirmative Action | |
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| On Black-Brown Relations | |
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| On Black Sexuality | |
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| On Black Nationalism | |
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| Tensions with Jewish Friends and Foes | |
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| On Jackie Robinson | |
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| On Julianne Malveaux | |
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| Conversation with bell hooks | |
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| Postscript | |
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| Chekhov, Coltrane and Democracy | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |