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Author Moses, Greg.

Title Revolution of conscience : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the philosophy of nonviolence / Greg Moses ; foreword by Leonard Harris
Published New York : Guilford Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description xviii, 238 pages ; 24 cm
Series Critical perspectives
Critical perspectives (New York, N.Y.)
Contents Introduction: The Logic of Nonviolence. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the American Intellectual. King's Life and Thought. King and Contemporary Thought -- Ch. 1. Equality. Frederick Douglass and the Criteria of Intellectual Honesty. King's American Dream. The Example of Frederick Douglass. Philosophy's Color Line -- Ch. 2. Structure and Race. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Problem of the Color Line. Reviewing King's Usage. Nineteenth-Century Precedents. The Century of the Color Line. Little Kingdom of Salt -- Ch. 3. Structure and Class. A. Philip Randolph, Ralph J. Bunche, and the Context of Class Analysis. Classical Foundations of Structural Theory. Class Analysis Meets Race. Randolph vs. Du Bois. Imperatives of Radical Theory. Bunche's World View. King and the Race-Class Question -- Ch. 4. Nonviolent Direct Action. Howard Thurman and the Ethics of Love. Jesus as Ethical Model. The Tactic Defended. Breaking the Cycle of Fear. Six Aspects of Nonviolent Struggle
An Experimental Technique. Thurman's View of Jesus -- Ch. 5. Justice and Love. Of Ends and Means. Bringing Love to Black Power. Bringing Justice to Liberalism. King's World House of Tough-Minded Love. Jesus in Jail in Texas. A Philosophy of Liberation? Epilogue for a Tough Mind
Notes Bibliography: p229-233. - Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-233) and index
Subject King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Philosophy.
African American intellectuals.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Nonviolence -- United States.
LC no. 96035442
ISBN 1572301694 (acid-free paper)
1572304073 (paperback)