Race Culture and the Intellectuals 1940 1970

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Race Culture and the Intellectuals 1940 1970

Author	: Richard H. King
File Size	: 53,5 Mb
Publisher	: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 17 August 2004
ISBN	: 0801880661
Pages	: 420 pages

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To study this transition from universalism to cultural particularism, Richard King focuses on the arguments of major thinkers, movements, and traditions of thought, attempting to construct a map of the ideological positions that were staked out and an intellectual history of this transition.

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