James Baldwin on History, Responsibility, and Atonement
Melvin Rogers is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Brown University. He is the author of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality and the Ethos of Democracy (Columbia University Press) and the award-winning book The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought (Princeton University Press). He is also the editor of John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (Ohio University Press), co-editor of African American Political Thought: A Collected History (University of Chicago Press), and co-editor of the book series: Oxford New Histories of Philosophy. He received the 2023 James W. C. Pennington Award from Heidelberg University for his scholarship.
Professor Rogers' Athenaeum presentation kicks off CMC's "Baldwin at 100" conference, and is co-sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies and the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World at CMC.