ABSTRACT: In her new book, A Duboisian Democracy: On Method, Practice, and Revolution, Basevich draws on Du Bois’s early and middle periods (1903-1940) to theorize the democratic construction, acquisition, and revolutionary implementation of the requirements of justice. In a world where race organizes economic and political power, Basevich shows that philosophers and ordinary people alike can still put their faith in inclusive democratic practices to build a just society.

Commentators
Alex Guerrero (Rutgers University)
Frank Kirkland (CUNY)
Jordan Pascoa (Manhattan College)
Philip Yaure (Virginia Tech)

Elvira Basevich is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis and the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values. Her research areas are social and political philosophy, Africana philosophy, and late modern German philosophy, especially Kant, Hegel, and Marx. Her essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Kantian Review, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Critical Philosophy of Race, Journal of Political Philosophy, and Social Theory & Practice.

Commentators:
Alex Guerrero (Rutgers University)
Frank Kirkland (CUNY)
Jordan Pascoe (Manhattan College)
Philip Yaure (Virginia Tech)

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