This artricle explores the philosophical roots of Alexander Crummell's abolitionism. It argues that the black abolitionist developed a philosophically sophisticated approach to antislavery politics and to black advancement rooted, in part, in his encounter with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's metaphysics and epistemology. Developing out his encounter with Coleridge and others, Crummell developed a politicized theory of the self. From Coleridge he took an appreciation of anti-instrumental ways of thinking about politics rooted in the alignment of internal qualities of the self with external political organizing. His thought demonstrates the cosmopolitanism and sophistication of antebellum black intellectual and activist life, as well as the ways that theories of selfhood were deployed in radical political movements of the nineteenth century.

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亚历山大·克鲁梅尔谈柯勒律治和废奴主义自我的政治

这篇文章探讨了亚历山大·克鲁梅尔废奴主义的哲学根源。它认为黑人废奴主义者对反奴隶制政治和黑人进步发展了一种哲学上复杂的方法，部分原因在于他与塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治的形而上学和认识论的相遇。在与柯勒律治和其他人的相遇中，克鲁梅尔发展了一种政治化的自我理论。从柯勒律治那里，他欣赏了反工具化的政治思维方式，这种思维方式植根于自我的内在品质与外部政治组织的一致性。他的思想展示了战前黑人知识分子和活动家生活的世界主义和复杂性，以及自我理论在 19 世纪激进政治运动中的运用方式。