Beyond This Narrow Now

Or, Delimitations, of W. E. B. Du Bois

Bibliographic Data

ID7101195
AuthorsNahum Dimitri Chandler (corresponding author)
Year2021
Publication date2021-11-29
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBeyond This Narrow Now (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9781478022121
OpenAlexW3217400488
Open LibraryOL36481835M
ISBN9781478022121
LanguageEN
Citations received11

In “Beyond This Narrow Now” Nahum Dimitri Chandler shows that the premises of W. E. B. Du Bois's thinking at the turn of the twentieth century stand as fundamental references for the whole itinerary of his thought. Opening with a distinct approach to the legacy of Du Bois, Chandler proceeds through a series of close readings of Du Bois's early essays, previously unpublished or seldom studied, with discrete annotations of The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches of 1903, elucidating and elaborating basic epistemological terms of his thought. With theoretical attention to how the African American stands as an example of possibility for Du Bois and renders problematic traditional ontological thought, Chandler also proposes that Du Bois's most well-known phrase—“the problem of the color line”—sustains more conceptual depth than has yet been understood, with pertinence for our accounts of modern systems of enslavement and imperial colonialism and the incipient moments of modern capitalization. Chandler's work exemplifies a more profound engagement with Du Bois, demonstrating that he must be re-read, appreciated, and studied anew as a philosophical writer and thinker contemporary to our time

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Capitalization · Colonialism · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Phrase · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · History · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · 20th century · African American & Black · African American & Black Studies · African American authors · African americans · American · American literature · Criticism and interpretation · Écrivains noirs américains · Ethnic Studies · Influence · Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) · Intellectual life · Literary Criticism · Noirs américains · Political and social views · Politics and literature · Politique et littérature · Social Science · Vie intellectuelle · W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)

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