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 justic...

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