Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (762 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226317765 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Du Bois, Ralph Bunche, and John Dewey. Washington, W. Alain L. Locke narrates the untold story of his profound impact on twentieth-century America’s cultural and intellectual life. Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth trace this story through Locke’s Philadelphia upbringing, his undergraduate years at Harvard—where William James helped spark his influential engagement with pragmatism—and his tenure as the first African American Rhodes Scholar. The long-awaited first biography of this extraordinarily gifted philosopher and writer, Alain L. E. Locke (1886-1954), in his famous 1925 anthology TheNew Negro, declared that “the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem.” Often called the father of the Harlem Renaissance, Locke had his finger directly on that pulse, promoting, influencing, and sparring with such figures as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hur
Ahead of his Time, Alain Locke is Timely Today Dr. Christopher Buck On December 23, 2008, at my doorstep, I received my amazon.com copy of *Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher* (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), by Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth. Handsome, dignified, and packed with documented information, this fine book is richly illustrated with valuable historical photographs of Alain Locke.The “Introduction&rd. a very good, thorough Cornelius Badger a very good, thorough, scholarly work by Professor Molesworth. I'd be glad to take a look at others.
Locke the thinker holds the center in this biography, but all around are glimpses of Locke the social being—a whos who of turn-of-the-century Harvard and of decades of African-American writers, scholars and political figures. (Dec.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The authors separate perspectives bring uncommon depth and detail to the analysis of their subjects multiple interests: philosophy, cultural criticism, race theory, adult education, and esthetics, among others. From Publishers Weekly Philosophy professor Harris and English professor Molesworth fuse disciplines in this groundbreaking study of Locke (1885–1954), the preeminent African-American aesthetician and philosopher in the years between WWI and WWII, most familiar as the editor of the New Negro, the chief group presentation of the values and interests of the Harlem Renaissance. The authors are painstakingly detailed along the usual biographical pa