#131 - Philosophy in Our Age of Imperial Decline: Cornel West on Blues and Jazz, Radical Democracy, and the Consequences of Imperial Hubris

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon “The [music of the] Blues is relevant today because when we look down through the corridors of time, the black American interpretation of tragicomic hope in the face of dehumanizing hate and oppression will be seen as the only kind of hope that has any kind of maturity in a world of overwhelming barbarity and bestiality. That barbarity is found not just in the form of terrorism but in the form of the emptiness of our lives - in terms of the wasted human potential that we see around the world. In this sense, the blues is a great democratic contribution of black people to world history.” -Cornel West, Democracy Matters, 2004 -//- Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/k5ydesBadno  Published March 2022 by The New School: https://www.youtube.com/@thenewschool  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-engels/support