This comprehensive text offers a systematic and thematic approach to West's philosophical work. It moves the reader through his distinctive form of prophetic pragmatism, his historicist and improvisational philosophy of religion, his socialist democratic and truncated Marxist political philosophy, and his reflections on a range of cultural issues.
About the Author
George Yancy is McAnulty Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Duquesne University. He is editor of African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations (1998), named an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice in 1999.
Features
Critically and respectfully examines West's influential ideas in a single and readily accessible volume.
Offers a wide range of perspectives on West's work, including existential and phenomenological philosophy, social and political philosophy, history, womanist and feminist theory, and theology and philosophy of religion.
Serves as the first critical anthology of West's work.
