| W. E. B. Du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society Subjects: Du Bois W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) 1868–1963; Political and social views; Capitalism -- Social aspects -- United States; Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States; Competition -- Social aspects -- United States; Competition -- Mo; Competition and competitiveness are roundly celebrated as public values and key indicators of a dynamic and forward-thinking society. But the headlong embrace of competitive market principles, increasingly prevalent in our neoliberal age, often obscures the enduring divisiveness of a society set up to produce winners and losers. In this inspired and thoughtfully argued book, Andrew J. Douglas turns to the later writings of W. E. B. Du Bois to reevaluate the very terms of the competitive society. ANDREW J. DOUGLAS is a professor of political science and a faculty affiliate in Africana studies and international comparative labor studies at Morehouse College. He is the author of In the Spirit of Critique: Thinking Politically in the Dialectical Tradition and W. E. B. Du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society (Georgia). He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. |