A Dealer of Old Clothes

Darryl Scriven presents in this work the first rigorous philosophical investigation of a myriad of issues found in David Walker's only book <I>The Appeal</I>. Scriven introduces Walker as a sage able to offer valuable philosophical insights into problems we as a nation are even now still confronting; thus marking Walker's work as timeless and rightfully so.</p><P>Some of the issues investigated include the concepts of race truth esteem human nature racial consciousness moral obligations and the aim of social and political philosophy. By engaging Walker in a discussion about these issues and others Scriven is able to present Walker as not just a sage who is quite prophetic but as a true philosopher political theorist theologian and revolutionary pragmatist.</p><P>No one who reads this work should doubt that Walker although he has not been remembered as he should have been at the time he published his pamphlet had a marked impact on the political and social landscape of this nation. Through this current dialogue between Scriven and Walker those who are careful to listen may well find a new hope new insights and perhaps even a new commitment to praxis at a time when our nation is still troubled and struggling to develop a sustainable modern democracy.<br><div style=text-align:right>--From the Foreword by Daphne Rolle