Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America / Edition 1

Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America / Edition 1

by Cornel West
ISBN-10:
0415964814
ISBN-13:
9780415964814
Pub. Date:
09/11/2008
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0415964814
ISBN-13:
9780415964814
Pub. Date:
09/11/2008
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America / Edition 1

Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America / Edition 1

by Cornel West
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'The sheer range of West's interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable talking about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and popular-cultural forms.' - Artforum

Keeping Faith is a rich, moving and deeply personal collection of essays from one of the leading African American intellectuals of our age. Drawing upon the traditions of Western philosophy and modernity, Cornel West critiques structures of power and oppression as they operate within American society and provides a way of thinking about human dignity and difference afresh. Impressive in its scope, West confidently and deftly explores the politics and philosophy of America, the role of the black intellectual, legal theory and the future of liberal thought, and the fate of African Americans. A celebration of the extraordinary lives of ordinary Americans, Keeping Faith is a petition to hope and a call to faith in the redemptive power of the human spirit.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415964814
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/11/2008
Series: Routledge Classics
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Cornel West (1953-) is currently Professor of Religion at Princeton University. As well as being a prominent public intellectual and a widely read writer on American Politics, Religion and Culture, he also produced a CD, Sketches of My Culture and appeared in the final two films in The Matrix trilogy.

Table of Contents

Preface: The Difficulty of Keeping Faith. Cultural Criticism and Race 1. The New Cultural Politics of Difference 2. Black Critics and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation 3. A Note on Race and Architecture 4. Horace Pippin's Challenge to Art Criticism 5. The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual. Philosophy and Political Engagement 6. Theory, Pragmatisms and Politics 7. Pragmatism and the Sense of the Tragic 8. The Historicist Turn in Philosophy of Religion 9. The Limits of Neopragmatism 10. On Georg Lukacs 11. Fredric Jameson's American Marxism. Law and Culture 12. Reassessing the Critical Legal Studies Movement 13. Critical Legal Studies and a Liberal Critic 14. Charles Taylor and the Critical Legal Studies Movement 15. The Role of Law in Progressive Politics. Explaining Race 16. Race and Social Theory 17. The Paradox of the African American Rebellion Notes Index
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