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On Obama<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Routledge<\/a>
\n2015-11-04
\n134 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780415525473
\nHardback ISBN: 9780415525466<\/p>\n

Paul C. Talyor<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies
\nPennsylvania State University<\/em><\/p>\n

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On Obama<\/em> examines some of the key philosophical questions that accompany the historic emergence of the 44th US president<\/a>. The purpose of this book is to take seriously the once common thought that the Obama<\/a> presidency had ushered in a post-historical age. Three questions organize the argument of the book: What\u2019s living and dead in the idea of post-racialism<\/a>? Did Mr. Obama\u2019s preference for problem-solving over ideological warfare mark him not just as a post-partisan figure but as a philosophical pragmatist? Did the US become post-imperial when the descendants of slaves and of British imperial subjects inhabited the White House<\/a>? In addition to taking up these questions, the book considers Mr. Obama\u2019s own relationship to the post-historical idea and explores the ethical implications of certain ways of entertaining that idea.<\/p>\n

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