Shattered dreams, infinite hope

Shattered dreams, infinite hope A tragic vision of the civil rights movement

Brandon M. Terry

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Subjects
Diritti civili > Movimenti sociali > Stati Uniti d'America.
Afroamericani > Diritti civili > Stati Uniti d'America > Sec. 20. > Storia.
Published
Cambridge (Massachusetts) ; London : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2025.
Language
English
Main Author
Brandon M. Terry (Author)
Physical Description
549 p. ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Indice analitico.
ISBN
9780674271289
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. A Critical Theory of Exemplarity, Judgment, and Narrative
  • 1. On Exemplarity and Disclosure: The Experience of Exemplarity
  • 2. Between Aesthetics and History: Kant and the Problem of Judgment
  • 3. The Defeated Cause: Judgment, History, and Narrative
  • Part 2. Romance
  • 4. The Romance of Civil Rights: From Red Sea to Ruins
  • 5. The Tangible Ruins of Our Present: The Crisis of Authority in Black Political Life
  • 6. Beyond Silence and Romance: Rawls, Mills, and the Tasks of Political Philosophy and Critique
  • Part 3. After Romance
  • 7. The Changing Same: Ironic History and Its Politics in African American Critical Thought
  • 8. The Tragic Vision: The Meaning of Long Civil Rights Movement History
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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