23 | How Does a Democracy Keep its Character? Lessons from the Black Radical Tradition w/ Prof. Melvin Rogers
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Souls of Black Folk by James Baldwin
Apro pessimism is a long tradition of black thinking in the united states. It sits in contrast to different ways of trying to articulate an affirmative picture of a just society. And so all of them think that to forge a sort of affirmative vision of racially just society, you have to travel through the tragedy of the past. But travelling through that past means that you can't sot of sort of setabout creating a theory of justice from this sort of imagined location that never was. The book ends with James baldwin come so importanttly at the end.
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