Bromell The Powers of Dignity

The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1280-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 283 Seiten

Nick Bromell examines how Frederick Douglass forged a distinctively black political philosophy out of his experiences as an enslaved and later nominally free man in ways that challenge Anglo-Continental traditions of political thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bromell, Nick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. "The Thing Looked Absurd": The Black in Douglass's Political Philosophy 1
1. "To Become a Colored Man": Proposing Black Powers to the Black Public Sphere 17
2. "A Chapter of Political Philosophy Applicable to the American People": Human Nature, Human Dignity, Human Rights 38
3. "One Method for Expressing Opposite Emotions": Douglass's Fugitive Rhetoric 55
4. "Assault Compels Defense": Douglass on Black Emigration and Violence 82
5. "A Living Root, Not a Twig Broken Off": Douglass's Constitutionalism and the Paradox of Democracy's Foundations 101
6. "Somebody's Child": Awakening, Resistance, and Vulnerability in My Bondage and My Freedom 124
7. "Nothing Less Than a Radical Revolution": Douglass's Struggle for a Democracy without Race 159
8. "That Strange, Mysterious, and Indescribable": The Fugitive Legacy of Douglass's Political Thought 188
Notes 207
Bibliography 243
Index 263

Über Autor(innen)

Nick Bromell is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and editor of A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois and The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy.