Title | The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and The Transformation of U.S. Democracy |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2013 |
Author | Bromell, Nick |
Number of Pages | 190 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
City | New York, NY |
ISBN or ASIN Number | 978-0-19-997343-9 |
Keywords | democracy, history, Identity, Politics |
URL | http://www.amazon.com/Time-Always-Now-Transformation-Democracy/dp/0199973431/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1442598374&sr=1-1&keywords=the+time+is+always+now |
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A literary critic and intellectual historian, Bromell draws on a wide range of fiction, essays, speeches, and oral histories, deftly synthesizing recent work in U.S. history, literary and cultural studies, and political theory. Like the figures he discusses, he puts this thought to work in the present moment, this "now." Black democratic insights, he shows, are strikingly relevant to the challenges facing US democracy today, and they provide the basis for a new, post-liberal public philosophy with which to turn back the rise of radical conservatism.