{"product_id":"dark-voices-shamoon-zamir-9780226978536","title":"Dark Voices: W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888-1903","description":"\u003ci\u003eDark Voices\u003c\/i\u003e is the first sustained examination of the intellectual formation of W. E. B. Du Bois, tracing the scholar and civil rights leader's thought from his undergraduate days in the 1880s to the 1903 publication of his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e, and offering a new reading of his work from this period. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bringing to light materials from the Du Bois archives that have not been discussed before, Shamoon Zamir explores Du Bois's deep engagement with American and European philosophy and social science. He examines the impact on Du Bois of his studies at Harvard with William James and George Santayana, and shows how the experience of post-Reconstruction racism moved Du Bois from metaphysical speculation to the more instrumentalist knowledge of history and the new discipline of sociology, as well as toward the very different kind of understanding embodied in the literary imagination. Providing a new and detailed reading of \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e in comparison with Hegel's \u003ci\u003ePhenomenology of Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, Zamir challenges accounts that place Du Bois alongside Emerson and James, or characterize him as a Hegelian idealist. This reading also explores Du Bois's relationship to African American folk culture, and shows how Du Bois was able to dramatize the collapse of many of his hopes for racial justice and liberation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The first book to place \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e in its intellectual context, \u003ci\u003eDark Voices\u003c\/i\u003e is a case study of African American literary development in relation to the broader currents of European and American thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shamoon Zamir\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226978532\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226978536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.08h x 6.07w x 0.69d","brand":"Shamoon Zamir","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45064483078399,"sku":"9780226978536","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_390f8976-3ccd-4bed-9104-b0931eacbe70.jpg?v=1712124434","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dark-voices-shamoon-zamir-9780226978536","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}