Philosophy of Alain Locke

Leonard Harris is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Morgan State University.

• IntroductionRendering the Text – Leonard HarrisPart I: Epistemological Foundations1. Values and Imperatives2. Pluralism and Intellectual Democracy3. Cultural Relativism and Ideological Peace4. A Functional View of Value Ultimates5. Pluralism and Ideological Peace6. Good Reading7. ValuePart II: Valuation: Commentaries and Reviews8. The Orientation of Hope9. Unity through Diversity10. Santayana11. Moral Imperatives for World Order12. Philosophy Alive13. Values That MatterPart III: Identity and Plurality14. The Problem of Race Classification5. The Ethics of Culture16. The Concept of Race as Applied to Social Culture17. The Contribution of Race to Culture18. Who and What Is "Negro"?19. Frontiers of CulturePart IV: Identity and Education20. Negro Education Bids for Par21. Negro Needs as Adult Education Opportunities22. The Need for a New Organon in EducationAn InterpretationRendering the Subtext: Subterranean Deconstructive Project – Leonard HarrisChronologyBibliographyIndex

"An especially timely book in its constant emphasis on the deep connection between the ethical/political and the metaphysical/epistemological spheres of philosophy and indeed 'real life.'"-Radical Philosophy Review of Books "There is absolutely no doubt that this book is a very useful addition to the corpus of work in Afro American-indeed, in American-philosophy. Locke's unpublished work on the question of value reveals a good deal about the ways in which American philosophers approached questions of value in the mid-century, before logical positivism had had its major impact on American thought; and his contributions to the issue of cultural pluralism are historically important and still influential."-Anthony Appiah, Cornell University "A challenging book. It forces the reader to cross interdisciplinary boundaries that are not often transgressed."-Ethics