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Composition and Cornel West: Notes toward a Deep Democracy identifies and explains key aspects of the work of Cornel Westthe highly regarded scholar of religion, philosophy, and African American studiesas they relate to composition studies, focusing especially on three rhetorical strategies that West suggests we use in our questioning lives as scholars, teachers, students, and citizens.In this study, author Keith Gilyard examines the strategies of Socratic Commitment (a relentless examination of received wisdom), Prophetic Witness (an abiding concern with justice and the plight of the oppressed), and Tragicomic Hope (a keep-on-pushing sensibility reflective of the African American freedom struggle). Together, these rhetorical strategies comprise an updated form of cultural criticism that West calls prophetic pragmatism.This volume, which contains the only interview in which Cornel West directly addresses the field of composition, sketches the development of Cornel West’s theories of philosophy, political science, religion, and cultural studies and restates the link between Deweyan notions of critical intelligence and the notion of critical literacy developed by Ann Berthoff, Ira

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Author

Keith Gilyard

Publisher

Southern Illinois University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781435663657

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Language Learning