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McCall Publishes Book Review, Essay in Philosophy Journals

Elmira, NY (12/11/2019) — Dr. Corey McCall, associate professor of philosophy, published his review of Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson's Genealogies of Terrorism in the current issue of Philosophy in Review. According to McCall, the book itself examines a history of terrorism that dates centuries back until present day."The four historical moments she analyzes are the French and Russian Revolutions, the Algerian War of Independence, and the current (and seemingly interminable) historical moment of the War on Terror in the United States," said McCall. For the full review, click here.

Along with his book review, McCall also published an essay entitled "John Dewey and James Baldwin on History, Tragedy, and the Forgetting of Race" in the current issue of The Journal of the Philosophy of History, which is devoted to the theme of "Pragmatism and the Philosophy of History."

This essay examines various intellectual affinities between Dewey and Baldwin, including their pragmatic and tragic conceptions of history. "I argue in the first section that Dewey's attention to the precarious dimensions of experience and his critique of dominant modes of inquiry that prioritize the stable over the precarious pay insufficient attention to race, though this focus on the precarious over the stable aspects of experience is enough to show that pragmatism does acknowledge the tragic dimension," said McCall. For more information on the essay, click here.

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