Books by Du Bois

Other works by Du Bois referred to in the text

Secondary literature

• Anderson, R. Lanier, 2003, “The Debate over the Geisteswisssenschaften in German Philosophy” in Thomas Baldwin (ed.), The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870–1940, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 221–234. (Scholar)
• Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 1985, “The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race,” Critical Inquiry 12 (1): 21–37. (Scholar)
• –––, 1992, “Illusions of Race,” in In My Father’s House, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Arnold, Matthew, 1869, Culture and Anarchy (ed.), Samuel Lipman, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. (Scholar)
• Balfour, Lawrie, 2010, “Darkwater’s Democratic Vision,” Political Theory 38(4): 537–563. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, Democracy’s Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Basevich, Elvira, 2021, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Lost and the Found, Cambridge: Polity Press (Scholar)
• Barry, Peter Brian, 2013, Evil and Moral Psychology, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Beck, Hamilton, 1996, “W. E. B. Du Bois as a Study Abroad Student in Germany, 1892–1894,” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2: 47 (see n. 4). doi:10.36366/frontiers.v2i1.25 (Scholar)
• Bernasconi, Robert, 2009, “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Philosophy of History in Context.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 108 (3): 519–540. (Scholar)
• Blight, David W. and Gooding-Williams, Robert, 1997, “The Strange Meaning of Being Black: Du Bois’s American Tragedy,” in David W. Blight and Robert Gooding-Williams (ed.), The Souls of Black Folk, Boston: Bedford Books. (Scholar)
• Bogues, Anthony, 2003, Black Heretics, Black Prophets, NewYork: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Boxill, Bernard R., 1992, Blacks and Social Justice, rev. ed., Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Bright, Liam Kofi, 2017, “Du Bois’ democratic defense of the value free ideal,” Synthese. doi:10.1007/s11229-017-1333-z (Scholar)
• Bromell, Nick, 2018, “’Honest and Earnest Criticism’ as the ‘Soul of Democracy’: Du Bois’s Style of Democratic Reasoning,” in A Political Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois, Nick Brommell (ed.), Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, pp. 159–180. (Scholar)
• Carby, Hazel, 1998, Race Men, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Chandler, Nahum Dimitri, 2014, X—The Problem of the Negro as a Problem of Thought, New York: Fordham. (Scholar)
• –––, 2022, “Beyond This Narrow Now,” Or, Delimitations of W.E.B. Du Bois, New York: Fordham. (Scholar)
• –––, 2023, Annotations: On the Early Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois, Durham: Duke University Press. (Scholar)
• Clark, Maudemarie, 1994, “Nietzsche’s Immoralism and the Concept of Morality” in Richard Schacht (ed.), Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, pp. 15–34. (Scholar)
• Curry, Tommy, 2014, “Empirical or Imperial? Issues in the Manipulation of Du Bois’s Intellectual Historiography in Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Lines of Descent,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 35 (1–2): 331–351. (Scholar)
• Darby, Derrick, 2020, “Du Bois’s Defense of Democracy,” in Melissa Schwartzberg & Daniel Viehoff (eds.), Democratic failure, New York: New York University Press, pp. 205–246. (Scholar)
• Davari, Arash, 2018, “On Democratic Leadership and Social Change: Positioning Du Bois in the Shadow of a Gray To-come,” in A Political Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois, Nick Brommell (ed.), Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, pp. 242–270 (Scholar)
• Davis, Angela, 2005, Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture, New York: Seven Stories Press. (Scholar)
• Descombes, Vincent, 2014, The Institution of Meaning: A Defense of Anthropological Holism, trans. Stephen Adam Schwartz, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Dilthey, Wilhelm, 1883 Introduction to the Human Sciences, Volume 1, translation of Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften, ed. Rudolph Makkreel and Frithjof Rodi, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. (Scholar)
• Douglas, Andrew, 2019, W.E.B. Du Bois and the Competitive Society, Athens: University of Georgia Press. (Scholar)
• Edwards, Barrington S., 2006, “W.E.B. Du Bois between Worlds: Berlin, Empirical Research, and the Race Question,” The Du Bois Review 3 (2): 395–424. (Scholar)
• Fertik, Harriet, 2019, “Hell to Pay: Aristotle and W. E. B. Du Bois’s Vision of Democracy in ‘Of the Ruling of Men’,” International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 26: 72–85. (Scholar)
• Fields, Karen E. and Fields, Barbara J., 2012, “Individuality and the Intellectuals: An Imaginary Conversation Between Emile Durkheim and W.E.B. Du Bois,” in Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, London: Verso, pp. 225–26. (Scholar)
• Fisher, Rebecka Rutledge, 2014, Habitations of The Veil: Metaphor and the Poetics of Black Being in African American Literature, Albany: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
• Foner, Eric, 1988, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, New York: Harper & Row. (Scholar)
• Getachew, Adom and Pitts, Jennifer, 2022, “Democracy and Empire: An Introduction to the International Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois,” in A. Getachew & J. Pitts (eds.), W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. xv-lvii. (Scholar)
• Geuss, Raymond, 1994, “Nietzsche and Genealogy,” European Journal of Philosophy, 2 (3): 275–292. (Scholar)
• Glasgow, Joshua, 2010, “The End of Historical Constructivism: Circularity, Indeterminacy, and Redundancy,” The Monist, 93 (2): 321–335. (Scholar)
• Gooding-Williams, Robert, 1987, “Philosophy of History and Social Critique in The Souls of Black Folk,” Sur les Sciences Sociales (Social Science Information), 26 (March 1987): 99–114. (Scholar)
• –––, 1991, “Evading Narrative Myth, Evading Prophetic Pragmatism: Cornel West’s ‘The American Evasion of Philosophy’,” The Massachusetts Review, 32(4): 517–542. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, “Outlaw, Appiah, and Du Bois’s ‘The Conservation of Races’,” in Bernard W. Bell, Emily R. Grosholz, and James B. Stewart (ed.), W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture, New York: Routledge, pp. 39–56. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro Modern Political Thought in America, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, “Autobiography, Political Hope, Racial Justice,” Du Bois Review, 11 (1): 159–175. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, “History of African American Political Thought and Antiracist Critical Theory,” in Naomi Zack (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 235–245. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, “Beauty as Propaganda: On the Political Aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois,” Philosophical Topics, 49 (Spring): 13–33 (Scholar)
• –––, 2023, “Demokratie und ästhetische Erziehung. Du Bois’ Politik des Schönen,” WestEnd, 01: 113–137. (Scholar)
• Gordon, Lewis, 2000, “Du Bois’s Humanistic Philosophy of the Human Sciences,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, “The Study of African American Problems: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Agenda, Then and Now,” 568 (March 2000): 265–280. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, An Introduction to Africana Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Gray, David Miguel, 2013, “Racial Norms: A Reinterpretation of Du Bois’ ‘The Conservation of Races’,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 51(4): 465–487. (Scholar)
• Green, Dan S. and Driver, Edwin D., 1976, “W.E.B. Du Bois: A Case in the Sociology of Sociological Negation,” Phylon, 37 (4): 308–333. (Scholar)
• Griffin, Farah Jasmine, 2000, “Black Feminists and Du Bois: Respectability, Protection, and beyond,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, “The Study of African American Problems: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Agenda, Then and Now,” 568 (March, 2000): 28–40. (Scholar)
• Hacking, Ian, 1990, The Taming of Chance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Hancock, Ange-Marie, 2005, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Intellectual Forefather of Intersectionality?” Souls, 7:3–4: 74–84. (Scholar)
• Harris, Leonard, 2004, “The Great Debate: W.E.B. Du Bois vs. Alain Locke on the Aesthetic,” Philosophia Africana, 7 (1): 15–39. (Scholar)
• Hartman, Saidiya, 2019, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, New York: W.W. Norton. (Scholar)
• Haslanger, Sally, 2012, Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Jaeggi, Rahel and Celikates, Robin, 2017, Sozialphilosophie: Eine Einführung, Munchen: Beck. (Scholar)
• James, Joy, Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals, New York: Routledge, 1997.
• James, William, 1879, “Are We Automata,” Mind, 4 (January): 1–22. (Scholar)
• –––, 1884, “The Dilemma of Determinism,” in The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Morality and Human Immortality, New York: Dover, 1956, pp. 145–183. (Scholar)
• –––, 1890, The Principles of Psychology, Volume II, New York: Dover, 1950. (Scholar)
• –––, 1892, Psychology, Briefer Course, New York: Henry Holt, 1923. (Scholar)
• Jeffers, Chike, 2013, “The Cultural Theory of Race: Yet Another Look at Du Bois’s ‘The Conservation of Races’,” Ethics 123: 403–426. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, “W.E.B. Du Bois’s ‘Whither Now and Why,’” in Eric Schliesser (ed.), Ten Neglected Classics of Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 222–255. (Scholar)
• Johnson, Walter, 2016, “To Remake the World: Slavery, Capitalism, and Justice,” Boston Review, Forum 1: 13–31. (Scholar)
• Judy, Ronald A. T., 2000, “Introduction: On W.E.B. Du Bois and Hyperbolic Thinking,” in Ronald Judy (ed.), Boundary 2, 27(3): 1–35. (Scholar)
• Lewis, David Levering, 1993, W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919, New York: Henry Holt. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963, New York: Henry Holt. (Scholar)
• Lloyd, Vincent W., 2016, Black Natural Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Lott, Tommy L., 1992–93, “Du Bois on the Invention of Race,” The Philosophical Forum, XXIV, (1–3): 166–187. (Scholar)
• Locke, Alain, 1928, “Art or Propaganda,” Harlem, I(1): 12–13. [Locke 1928 available online] (Scholar)
• Macmullen, Terrance, 2009, Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist Reconstruction, Bloomington: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)
• Mallon, Ron, 2014, “Naturalistic Approaches to Social Construction”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . (Scholar)
• Marshall, Stephen H., 2011, The City on the Hill from Below: The Crisis of Prophetic Black Politics, Philadelphia: Temple University Press. (Scholar)
• Mills, Charles W., 1997, The Racial Contract, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Radical Liberal,” in A Political Companion to W.E.B. Du Bois, Nick Brommell (ed.), Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, pp. 19–56. (Scholar)
• Morris, Aldon, 2015, The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology, Oakland: University of California Press. (Scholar)
• Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1978, The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850–1925, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Myers, Ella, 2017, “Beyond the Wages of Whiteness: Du Bois on the Irrationality of Antiblack Racism,” Items (Social Science Research Council), 21 March 2017. [Myers 2017 available online] (Scholar)
• Myers, Ellas, 2022, W.E.B. Du Bois and the Enduring Gratifications of Anti-Blackness, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1887, On the Genealogy of Morality, Maudemarie Clark and Alan J. Swenson (trans.), Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1998. (Scholar)
• Olson, Joel, 2004, The Abolition of White Democracy, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)
• Outlaw, Lucius, 1996, “‘Conserve’ Races?,” in Bernard W. Bell, Emily R. Grosholz, and James B. Stewart (ed.), W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture, New York: Routledge, pp. 15–37. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, “W.E.B. Du Bois on the Study of Social Problems,”Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 568, “The Study of African American Problems: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Agenda, Then and Now,” 568 (March, 2000): 281–297. (Scholar)
• Pittman, John P., “Double Consciousness”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/double-consciousness/>. (Scholar)
• Powers, Allison, 2014, “Tragedy Made Flesh: Constitutional Lawlessness in Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction,” in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 34(1): 106–125 (Scholar)
• Rabaka, Reiland, 2010, Against Epistemic Apartheid: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of American Sociology, Lanham: Lexington Books. (Scholar)
• Reed, Adolph, Jr., 1997, W.E.B. Du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1999, Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)
• Ringer, Fritz, 1997, Max Weber’s Methodology: The Unification of the Cultural and the Social Sciences, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Robinson, Cedric J., 1983, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, London: Zed Books Ltd. (Scholar)
• Rogers, Melvin L., 2012, “The People, Rhetoric, and Affect: On the Political Force of Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk,” American Political Science Review 106 (1):188–203. (Scholar)
• Royce, Josiah, 1899, The World and the Individual, Volume 1, New York: Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Searle, John R., 1995, The Construction of Social Reality, New York: Free Press. (Scholar)
• Shaw, Stephanie J., 2013, W.E.B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. (Scholar)
• Shelby, Tommie, 2007, We Who Are Dark, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, Dark Ghettoes: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Spivak, Gayatri, 2014, “The General Strike,” Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Politics and Society, 261: 9–14. (Scholar)
• Sullivan, Shannon, 2006, Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Sundstrom, Ronald, 2003, “Douglass and Du Bois’s Der Schwarze Volksgeist,” in Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy, ed. Robert Bernasconi, Indiana: Indiana University Press, pp. 32–52. (Scholar)
• Taylor, Paul C., 2000, “Appiah’s Uncompleted Argument: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Reality of Race,” Social Theory and Practice 26, 1: 103–128. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004a, “What’s the Use of Calling Du Bois a Pragmatist?,” Metaphilosophy, 35 (1/2): 99–114. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004b, Race: A Philosophical Introduction, Cambridge: Polity Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, “W.E.B. Du Bois,” Philosophy Compass 5/11 (2010): 904–915. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “Bare Ontology and Social Death,” Philosophical Papers 42 (3): 369–389. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, “Context and Complaint: On Racial Disorientation,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 35 (1–2): 331–351. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics, Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Afro-modernism, Expressivism, and the Curse of Centrality,” in Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner (eds.), African American Political Thought: A Collected History, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Thompson, Stephen, 2014, “Alexander Crummell”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = . (Scholar)
• Threadcraft, Shatema, 2016, Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Valdez, Inez, 2019, Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Viney, Donald Wayne, 1986, “William James on Free-Will and Determinism,” The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 7, 4: pp. 555–565. (Scholar)
• Washington, Booker T., 1901, Up From Slavery, New York: W. W. Norton & Company; 2nd revised edition, 1995. (Scholar)
• Weber, Max, 1905a, “Knies and Irrationalism,” in Max Weber, Roscher and Knies, The Logical Problems of Historical Economics, trans. Guy Oakes, New York: Free Press, pp. 93–207. (Scholar)
• –––, 1905b, “Critical Studies in the Logic of the Cultural Sciences,” in The Methodology of the Social Sciences, trans. and ed. Edward A. Shils and Henry A. Finch, New York: Free Press, 1949, pp. 113–188. (Scholar)
• –––, 1922, “Basic Sociological Concepts,” in Understanding and Social Inquiry, (ed.) Fred R. Dallmayr and Thomas A. McCarthy, Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 1977, pp. 38–55. (Scholar)
• West, Cornel, 1982, Prophecy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity, Philadelphia: Westminster Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1989, The American Evasion of Philosophy, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, “Black Strivings in a Twilight Civilization,” in Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West, The Future of the Race, New York: Knopf, pp. 53–112. (Scholar)
• Wolfenstein, Eugene Victor, 2007, A Gift of the Spirit: Reading The Souls of Black Folk, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Zamir, Shamoon, 1995, Dark Voices, W.E.B Du Bois and American Thought, 1888–1903, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Zimmerman, Andrew, 2010, Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)