Christopher Phelps
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Christopher Phelps (born 1965) is an American intellectual and political historian of the twentieth century. The subjects of his research and writing include philosophical pragmatism, the fate of the American left and the socialist ideal, and ideas of race and African American history.
Phelps currently teaches on the Ohio State University campus in Mansfield, Ohio, having previously taught at the University of Oregon and Simon Fraser University. He has received the Fulbright Award twice, to teach philosophy at the University of Pécs in Hungary in 2000 and American Studies at the University of Łódź in Poland in 2004-2005.
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[edit] Books
[edit] Sole Author
- Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist, Cornell University Press, 1997; 2d ed., University of Michigan Press, 2005.
[edit] Edited or Introduced
- The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005.
- Race and Revolution, by Max Shachtman, Verso, 2003.
- Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx, by Sidney Hook, Prometheus, 2002.
- From Hegel to Marx, by Sidney Hook, Columbia University Press, 1994.
[edit] Selected Articles
- "The Prophet Reconsidered," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
- "Diamonds in the Rough," InsideHigherEd.com, 2007
- "Father of History," The Nation, 2007
- "The New SDS," The Nation, 2007
- "Herbert Aptheker: The Contradictions of History," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2006
- "The Fictitious Suppression of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle," History News Network, 2006
- "The Lowering of Higher Education," InsideHigherEd.com, 2005
- "Fulbright of the Mind," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2005
- "Teaching: the View from Poland," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2005
- "Being There," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
- "Left Hook, Right Hook: The Rules of Engagement," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2003
- "Why We Should Not Call It War," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2001
- "A Socialist Magazine in the American Century," Monthly Review, 1999
- "Bourne Yet Again," on the legacy of Randolph Bourne, New Politics, 1998
[edit] References
"Phelps, Christopher," in Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2006.