Cornel West

Keeping Faith

Philosophy and Race in America

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Produktbeschreibung

In Keeping Faith, Cornel West - author of the bestselling Race Matters - puts forward his ideas about race and about philosophy. West's powerful voice ranges widely across issues of race and culture, the role of the black intellectual, politics and philosophy in America, art and architecture, questions of legal theory, and the future of liberal thought. In a time of decay and discouragement in the black community and among progressive forces at large, Keeping Faith offers new strategies to galvanize and propel a new generation of African Americans. Yet, West argues, racial subordination must be understood within the larger crises of our society. Maintaining the uniqueness of black identity and resistance, he provocatively suggests alliances with other intellectual and community-based forms of American radicalism. Keeping Faith offers West's distinctive mix of political passions and careful scrutiny. Whether exploring 'the new cultural politics of difference', American pragmatism, or race and social theory, he sustains a difficult balance between a subtly argued critique of the past and present, and a broadly conceived, daring vision of the future. Both troubling and exhilarating, Keeping Faith maps not only the concerns of one of the most significant public intellectuals of our time, but issues crucial to Americans of all races.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 146mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9780415904865
• ISBN-10: 0415904862
• Artikelnr.: 22586869

Autorenporträt

Cornel West is Professor of Afro-American Studies and Religion at Harvard University. He lectures widely and appears frequently on television, including Conversationswith Bill Moyers.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Difficulty of Keeping Faith
1 The 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 Neo-pragmatism
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
17 The Paradox of the African American Rebellion.

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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