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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 | |