Socrates in a Different Key
James Baldwin and Race in America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6339368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joel Alden Schlosser (0000-0002-9897-3550, Deep Springs College, Dyer, NV, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 66 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 487-499 |
| Publication date | 2013-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1065912912451352 |
| OpenAlex | W2168361079 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 24 |
This essay interprets Baldwin as continuing the Socratic practice of self-examination and social criticism while also shifting his Socratic undertaking by charting the limits of examination created by the harsh effects of race and slavery in the United States. The author argues that Baldwin’s Socratic practice inflects not only his essays—the center of previous analyses—but also his fictions. By transposing Socrates to issues of race in twentieth-century America and confronting the incoherent effects of a racialized society, James Baldwin thus carries forward and transforms a pivotal figure in the history of political thought
Art · Criticism · Epistemology · Key (lock · Literature · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · SOCRATES · Socratic method · Socratic questioning · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
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| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |