Race, Justice and American Intellectual Traditions

• Main Author: Rosenbaum, Stuart (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Political theory.; Political philosophy.; United States-Politics and government.; Political Theory.; Political Philosophy.; US Politics.

Some American intellectual traditions, although pristine in appearance, are racist at their core. This book reveals the racism inherent in those Platonist and Enlightenment moral traditions that motivate much contemporary rhetoric. Part One contains five chapters of substantial critique, while Part...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Prologue
• 2. Our Issues with Race
• 3. Western Justice
• 4. John Stuart Mill and the Liberal Tradition
• 5. Milton Friedman, American Economist and Liberal (1912-2006)
• 6. John Rawls, American Philosopher (1921-2002)
• 7. Retrospect and More
• 8. Michael Sandel's Insight
• 9. W.E.B. DuBois and John Dewey
• 10. Some Contemporaries
• 11. Our Future.