From Emerson to King
Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:31st Jul '97
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Patterson offers an exploration of Emerson's contribution to the national debate on democracy, race, and social reform. Emerson's writings, she contests, reveal a consistent pattern of contradiction between fundamental individual rights and race as a factor impossible to dismiss in a consideration of democratic values: ownership, nonconformity, freedom. She traces Emerson's legacy through the writing of African-American intellectuals of succeeding generations: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr.
useful and suggestive, very much drawing us into rereading the essays and the often neglected journal entries. That is an achievement. But further, this book is yet another piece of problematizing in a history traceable to Plato about the uses of philosophy in times of social crisis, an issue that needs constantly to be revisited. * Ann R. Cacoullos, The British Library *
This elegant book contributes importantly to ongoing conversations about and in the tradition of Emerson's founding work at that peculiarly American crossing of literature, history, and engaged citizenship. * Kathryne V. Lindberg, Wayne State University *
ISBN: 9780195109153
Dimensions: 25mm x 132mm x 278mm
Weight: 726g
272 pages