Cornel West and the Tragedy at the Heart of North American Pragmatism: A Retrospective Look at The American Evasion of Philosophy

Louis A. Ruprecht Jr. is the William M. Suttles Chair in Religious Studies, as well as the director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, at Georgia State University. His research focuses primarily on ancient Mediterranean cultures, with particular interest in the way certain classical themes and tropes have been deployed in various Early Modern arenas such as ethics and politics, psychology and sexuality, and the fine arts. His recent books include Policing the State: Democratic Reflections on Police Power Gone Awry (Cascade, 2013) and Winckelmann and the Vatican’s First Profane Museum (Palgrave, 2011).