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<p><P><i>Dark Voices</i> is the first sustained examination of the intellectual formation of W. E. B. Du Bois, tracing the scholar and civil rights leader's thought from his undergraduate days in the 1880s to the 1903 publication of his masterpiece, <i>The Souls of Black Folk</i>, and offering a new reading of his work from this period.<br><br>Bringing to light materials from the Du Bois archives that have not been discussed before, Shamoon Zamir explores Du Bois's deep engagement with American and European philosophy and social science. He examines the impact on Du Bois of his studies at Harvard with William James and George Santayana, and shows how the experience of post-Reconstruction racism moved Du Bois from metaphysical speculation to the more instrumentalist knowledge of history and the new discipline of sociology, as well as toward the very different kind of understanding embodied in the literary imagination. Providing a new and detailed reading of <i>The Souls of Black Folk</i> in comparison with Hegel's <i>Phenomenology of Mind</i>, Zamir challenges accounts that place Du Bois alongside Emerson and James, or characterize him as a Hegelian idealist. This reading also explo

Author

Zamir, Shamoon. author

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226978529

Subjects

Sociology, History, Humanities