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Introducing Prophetic Pragmatism: A Dialogue on Hope, the Philosophy of Race, and the Spiritual Blues

Jacob L. Goodson

Pragmatism is a philosophical school of thought emphasizing action, practices, and practical reasoning whereas prophecy is an ancient religious concept that requires belief in the reality of God. Although these two concepts seem to not be a natural fit with one another, the authors demonstrate why prophetic pragmatism is "pragmatism at its best."

Book Details

  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • Publish Date: Apr 3rd, 2023
  • Pages: 166
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.37in - 0.54lb
  • EAN: 9781498539982
  • Categories: Movements - PragmatismReligiousEthics

About the Author

Jacob L. Goodson is associate professor of philosophy at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.

Brad Elliott Stone is professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Praise for this book

The power of Introducing Prophetic Pragmatism lies in its co-authorship. In scholarly friendship, Goodson and Stone debate, explore, respond, and sometimes agree to disagree about the meaning and relevant contexts of Cornel West's groundbreaking work. The result is a fresh approach to understanding prophetic pragmatism.

What reason is there to reason in the face of catastrophic suffering and injustice? What hope? For Goodson and Stone, the answer is Prophetic Pragmatism: practices of prudential reasoning that display their powers of discernment and repair in times of darkness, when conventional reasonings lose their efficacy. But how, then, to introduce this pragmatism within the conventions of a book? The authors' ingenious solution is to compose the book dialogically, shuttling back and forth between their divergent accounts of what prophetic pragmatism means. Attentive readers become participants in the dialogue - no mere observers. When they do, there is even more to hope for.