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Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher

 

Alain L. Locke (1886-1954),  narrates the untold story of his profound impact on twentieth-century America’s cultural and intellectual life.
The heart of their narrative illuminates Locke’s heady years in 1920s New York City and his forty-year career at Howard University, where he helped spearhead the adult education movement of the 1930s and wrote on topics ranging from the philosophy of value to the theory of democracy. Harris and Molesworth show that throughout this illustrious career—despite a formal manner that many observers interpreted as elitist or distant—Locke remained a warm and effective teacher and mentor, as well as a fierce champion of literature and art as means of breaking down barriers between communities.



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