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Keeping Faith Philosophy and Race in America

By Cornel West Copyright 2008
    304 Pages
    by Routledge

    300 Pages
    by Routledge

    304 Pages
    by Routledge
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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.

    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 

    Biography

    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.

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