Cornel West: A Critical Reader

Notes on Contributors.

Cornel West: The Vanguard of Existential and Democratic Hope: George Yancy.

Part I: Pragmatism:.

1. Pragmatism Resurgent: A Reading of The American Evasion of Philosophy: Hilary W. Putnam.

2.The Unacknowledged Fourth Tradition: An Essay on Nihilism, Decadence, and the Black Intellectual Tradition in the Existential Pragmatic Thought of Cornel West: Lewis R. Gordon.

3. Cornel West on Prophesy, Pragmatism, and Philosophy: A Critical Evaluation of Prophetic Pragmatism: Clevis Headley.

4. Which Pragmatism? Whose America?: Eduardo Mendieta.

Part II: Philosophy of Religion:.

5. "Let Suffering Speak": The Vocation of a Black Intellectual: James H. Cone.

6. Religion and the Mirror of God: Historicism, Truth and Religious Pluralism: George Yancy.

7. Is Cornel West Also Among the Theologians? The Shadow of the Divine in the Religious Thought of Cornel West: Victor Anderson.

8. Cornel West's Improvisational Philosophy of Religion : M. Shawn Copeland.

9. Existential Aptness and Epistemological Correctness: Cornel West and the Identity of the "Lord": Josiah Ulysses Young, III.

Part III: Political Philosophy:.

10. Cornel West on Gender and Family: Some Admiring and Critical Comments: Iris M. Young.

11. Prophetic Pragmatism as Political Philosophy : Charles W. Mills.

12. "Radical Historicism," Antiphilosophy, and Marxism: John P. Pittman.

13. Cornel West and Afro-Nihilism: A Reconsideration: Floyd W. Hayes, III.

14. On Cornel West on W. E. B. Du Bois: Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr.

15. The Political Philosophy and Humanism of Cornel West: Howard McGary, Jr.

Part IV: Cultural Studies:.

16. "It's Dark and Hell is Hot": Cornel West, the Crisis of African-American Intellectuals and the Cultural Politics of Race: Peniel E. Joseph.

17. Reading Cornel West as a Humanistic Scholar: Rhetoric and Practice: Clarence Shole Johnson.

18. Cornel West's Representations of the Intellectual: But Some of Us Are Brave?: Nada Elia.

Afterword: Cornel West.

Select Bibliography of Cornel West's Works.

Index.