ISBN:
9781501763090
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 248 pages
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Weinfeld, David, 1982- American friendship
DDC:
305.80097309/04
Keywords:
Kallen, Horace Meyer Influence
;
Locke, Alain Influence
;
Cultural pluralism History 20th century
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
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Kallen, Horace Meyer 1882-1974
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Locke, Alain LeRoy 1886-1954
Abstract:
Introduction: What difference does the difference make? Cultural pluralism as friendship -- From Berenstadt to Boston -- The talented among the tenth -- Locke and Kallen, student and teacher -- American pluralists, friends at Oxford -- The Plural is political -- Plural in culture, universal in religion -- Friendship rekindled, pluralism refined -- Locke's legacy, Kallen's memory -- Conclusion: Differences made.
Abstract:
"An American Friendship narrates the development of cultural pluralism, an idea that emerged in the early twentieth century to explain and shape American diversity, as told through the unlikely friendship of two philosophers, Jewish immigrant and Zionist leader Horace Kallen, and African American Alain Locke, intellectual godfather of the Harlem Renaissance"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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