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] 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

[edit] References

"Phelps, Christopher," in Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2006.

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