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Nonviolence and the Nightmare: King and Black Self-Defense

Nonviolence and the Nightmare: King and Black Self-Defense Nonviolence and the Nightmare: King and Black Self-Defense daniel J. ott / monmouth college I. Whose Lives Matter? remember the first time that i heard James cone’s voice. A well-established, white scholar had just given what i thought to be a solid presentation on i m artin l uther King Jr.’s notion of the “beloved community.” When he had finished, cone was one of the first to speak in the question and answer period. his strong tenor was piercing: “y ou can’t talk about the dream, if you’re not going to talk about the nightmare.” he went on to clarify his worry that the heart of King’s message was too often lost when white scholars failed to put his thought in the context of the history and reality of the oppression of and violence against blacks in America. i have become afraid that my own thinking and writing about King’s philosophy of nonviolence might be similarly guilty. Another seminal moment for this essay was when William h art responded to a paper that i gave, in which i proposed nonviolence as William James’s moral equivalent to war. hart suggested that i had not really given an argument for why http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Theology & Philosophy University of Illinois Press

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University of Illinois Press
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Nonviolence and the Nightmare: King and Black Self-Defense daniel J. ott / monmouth college I. Whose Lives Matter? remember the first time that i heard James cone’s voice. A well-established, white scholar had just given what i thought to be a solid presentation on i m artin l uther King Jr.’s notion of the “beloved community.” When he had finished, cone was one of the first to speak in the question and answer period. his strong tenor was piercing: “y ou can’t talk about the dream, if you’re not going to talk about the nightmare.” he went on to clarify his worry that the heart of King’s message was too often lost when white scholars failed to put his thought in the context of the history and reality of the oppression of and violence against blacks in America. i have become afraid that my own thinking and writing about King’s philosophy of nonviolence might be similarly guilty. Another seminal moment for this essay was when William h art responded to a paper that i gave, in which i proposed nonviolence as William James’s moral equivalent to war. hart suggested that i had not really given an argument for why

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American Journal of Theology & PhilosophyUniversity of Illinois Press

Published: Apr 27, 2018

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