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Democracy Matters
Cornel West
ISBN: 0143035835
Format: Paperback, 240pp
Pub. Date: August 2005
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
BBP Sales Rank: 24,236
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Democracy Matters, Cornel West, 0143035835
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Praised by the New York Times for his "ferocious moral vision," Cornel
Westreturns to the analysis of what he calls the arrested development of
democracy with a masterful diagnosis. Pointing to the rise of three
antidemocratic dogmas that are rendering the energy of American democracy
impotent-a callous free-market fundamentalism, an aggressive militarism, and an
insidious authoritarianism-West argues that racism and imperial bullying have
gone hand in hand in our country's inexorable drive toward world dominance,
including our current militaristic excesses. This impassioned and empowering
call for the revitalization of America's democracy, by one of our most
distinctive and compelling social critics, will reshape the raging national
debate about America's role in today's troubled world.
Author Biography: Cornel West is Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion
at Princeton. The author of the contemporary classic Race Matters, he is a
recipient of the American Book Award.
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Professor
Cornel West serves as director of the Program in African American Studies at
Princeton University. His teaching and research interests include the
philosophy of religion and cultural criticism, and his current research
focuses on an examination of the cultural nexus between Anton Chekov and
John Coltrane and a book entitled The Tragic, the Comic, and the
Political.