On Obama - Taylor Paul C.
On Obama - Taylor Paul C. On Obama examines some of the key philosophical questions that accompany the historic emergence of the 44th US president. Three questions organize the argument of the book:…
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On Obama - Taylor Paul C.
On Obama examines some of the key philosophical questions that accompany the historic emergence of the 44th US president. Three questions organize the argument of the book: What s living and dead in the idea of post-racialism? Did Mr. The purpose of this book is to take seriously the once common thought that the Obama presidency had ushered in a post-historical age.
Did the US become post-imperial when the descendants of slaves and of British imperial subjects inhabited the White House? Obama s preference for problem-solving over ideological warfare mark him not just as a post-partisan figure but as a philosophical pragmatist? In addition to taking up these questions, the book considers Mr.
Obama s own relationship to the post-historical idea and explores the ethical implications of certain ways of entertaining that