Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope : : New Essays on the Work of Cornel West / / ed. by Barbara Will.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bois Anderson, Nkosi Du,; Bové, Paul A.,; Briones, Matthew M.,; Griffin, Farah Jasmine,; Heschel, Susannah,; Outlaw, Lucius T.,; Prevot, Andrew,; Terry, Brandon M.,; West, Cornel,; Will, Barbara,
• HerausgeberIn: Will, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; no illustrations

Thirty years have passed since Cornel West’s book Race Matters rose to the top of the bestseller lists in 1993. Yet his book remains as relevant as ever to American culture—even more so, if one considers its influence on contemporary racial justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, prison justice, and the fight for police reform. Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope, an edited volume of essays by leading scholars in Black studies, religious studies, and social justice history, looks back to the original 1993 text and forward into the future of racial understanding and healing in our current century, responding to Dr. West’s own repeated insistence that we can only understand our present and future by looking back.By reengaging with West’s book at this seminal moment, Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope offers new points of entry into the thorny issues that the 1993 text addressed: the challenge of leadership in a culture marked by the legacy of white supremacy; the limited value of liberal affirmative action programs in promoting the affirmation of Black humanity; the dangerous seductions of African American conservatism and the question of Black self-regard (what West called “black nihilism”); the necessity and difficulty of cross-race solidarity and cross-religious affinity; the need to channel legitimate Black rage over untenable conditions of existence into productive opportunities and viewpoints. All of these issues are even more marked in American society today. The voices collected in this volume are the legitimate intellectual heirs of the original Race Matters. With essays that span the topics of history, politics, philosophy, religion, cultural studies, music, and aesthetics, Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope is as wide-ranging as the thinker whose ideas it engages, interrogates, and celebrates.Contributors:Nkosi Du Bois Anderson, Paul A. Bové, Matthew M. Briones, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Susannah Heschel, Lucius T. Outlaw Jr., Andrew Prevot, Brandon M. Terry, Cornel West, Barbara Will.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. Cruciform (Almost) All the Way Down -- PART I. CORNEL WEST AND HIS INTELLECTUAL GENEALOGY -- CHAPTER 1 Reading Race Matters Again for the First Time -- CHAPTER 2 Race Matters and US American Democracy: Cornel West and W. E. B. Du Bois -- PART II Black Nihilism, Afropessimism, and Prophetic Faith -- CHAPTER 3 Nihilism, Pessimism, and Tragic Hope: Black Nihilism Reconsidered -- CHAPTER 4 Not Nothing: A Mystical Theological Reading of “Nihilism in Black America” -- CHAPTER 5 What Manner of Man Is the Prophet? Cornel West, Abraham Heschel, and the Hebrew Prophets -- CHAPTER 6 Prophetic Fightback: Cornel West, Race Matters, and the Black Church -- PART III Social Justice and Historical Witnessing -- CHAPTER 7 Race (and Love) Matter More Than Ever Now: Affirmative Action, Alliances, and Anti- Asian Hate -- CHAPTER 8 Soulful Kenosis in Narcissistic Times -- AFTERWORD Race Matters: Philosophy in the Funk -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX