Alain Locke on the Theoretical Foundations for a Just and Successful Peace

Alain Locke is most known for his involvement in the Harlem Renaissance. However, he received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1918, and produced a very large corpus of philosophical work. His work shows him to have been a sophisticated philosopher who thought through practical and theoretical problems regarding the nature of cosmopolitanism, democracy, race, value, religion, art, and education. Although Locke's philosophical work has been discussed in parts, there has been no theorizing about how his different philosophical commitments fit together. In this book Corey L. Barnes begins to systematize Locke's philosophical thought, showing how his democratic theory, philosophy of race, and value theory are connected to and undergirded by a commitment to cosmopolitanism. In so doing, Barnes unearths aspects of Locke's thought-for example, his economic thinking-that have not been accorded attention and reimagines parts of his work about which have been theorized, all while bringing Locke into current debates about each subject.

Author: Corey L. Barnes
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/05/2022
Pages: 279
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9783031150036
ISBN10: 3031150031
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- History | Americas (North Central South West Indies)

About the Author
Corey L. Barnes is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University, USA.