The Philosophy of Alain Locke: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

by Alain LeRoy Locke, Leonard Harris, George Albert Brown

Book Overview

This collection of essays by American philosopher Alain Locke (1885-1954) makes readily available for the first time his important writings on cultural pluralism, value relativism, and critical relativism. As a black philosopher early in this century, Locke was a pioneer: having earned both undergraduate and doctoral degrees at Harvard, he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, studied at the University of Berlin, and chaired the Philosophy Department at...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877225842
• ISBN13: 9780877225843
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.