Philosophic Values and World Citizenship

Alain Locke, the central promoter of the Harlem Renaissance, is placed in conversation with leading philosophers and cultural figures in the modern world, from Aristotle to Obama. For teachers and students of contemporary debates in pragmatism, diversity, and value theory, these conversations' define new-and controversial-terrain.

InPhilosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond, Alain Locke—the central promoter of the Harlem Renaissance, America's most famous African American pragmatist, the cultural referent for Renaissance movements in the Caribbean and Africa—is placed in conversation with leading philosophers and cultural figures in the modern world. The contributors to this collection compare and contrast Locke's views on values, tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and American and world citizenship with philosophers and leading cultural figures ranging from Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, James Farmer, William James, John Dewey, José Vasconcelos, Hans G. Gadamer, Fredrick Nietzsche, Horace Kallen, Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) to the cultural and political figure of Barack Obama.

This important collection of essays eruditely presents Locke's views on moral, emotional, and aesthetic values; the principle of tolerance in managing value conflict; and his rhetorical style, which conveyed his views of cultural reciprocity and tolerance in the service of the values of citizenship and cosmopolitanism.

For teachers and students of contemporary debates in pragmatism, diversity, and value theory, these conversations define new and controversial terrain.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Part One. Value
Chapter 3 Moral Imperatives for World Order
Chapter 4 Unity through Diversity: A Bahá'í Principle
Chapter 5 Chapter One. Culture and theKalos: Inquiry, Justice, and Value in Locke and Aristotle
Chapter 6 Chapter Two. Aesthetic Evaluations of Realist Drama
Chapter 7 Chapter Three. The Axiological Turn in Early Twentieth Century American Philosophy: Alain Locke and José Vasoconcelos on Epistemology, Value, and the Emotions
Chapter 8 Chapter Four. Conundrum of Cosmopolitanism and Race: The Great Debate between Alain Locke and William James
Part 9 Part Two. Tolerance
Chapter 10 A Functional View of Value Ultimates
Chapter 11 Chapter Five. A Functional Peace inThis World: Farmer and Locke on the Challenges of Truly Post-War Hope
Chapter 12 Chapter Six. Beyond Repressive Tolerance: Alain Locke's Hermeneutics of Democracy and Tolerance in Conversation with Herbert Marcuse and H.G. Gadamer
Chapter 13 Chapter Seven. Multicultural Education, Metaphysics, and Alain Locke's Post Metaphysical Alternative
Chapter 14 Chapter Eight. Unlikely Allies: Nietzsche, Locke, and Counter-Hegemonic Transformation of Consciousness
Part 15 Part Three. Cosmopolitanism
Chapter 16 World Citizenship: Mirage or Reality?
Chapter 17 Chapter Nine. Cosmopolitanism and Epideictic Rhetoric
Chapter 18 Chapter Ten. What Difference Does the Difference Make?: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke and the Birth of Cultural Pluralism
Chapter 19 Chapter Eleven. Ethnocentric Representations and Being Human in a Multiethnic Global World: Alain Locke Critique
Chapter 20 Chapter Twelve. Global Citizenship through Reciprocity: Alain Locke and Barack Obama's Pragmatist Politics
Chapter 21 Chapter Thirteen. New Moral Imperatives for World Order: Alain Locke on Pluralism and Relativism