ABSTRACT
'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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |77 pages
Cultural Criticism and Race
chapter |27 pages
The New Cultural Politics of Difference
chapter |10 pages
Black Critics and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation
chapter |9 pages
A Note on Race and Architecture
chapter |12 pages
Horace Pippin's Challenge to Art Criticism
chapter |17 pages
The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual
part |94 pages
Philosophy and Political Engagement
chapter |15 pages
Theory, Pragmatisms and Politics
chapter |11 pages
Pragmatism and the Sense of the Tragic
chapter |15 pages
The Historicist Turn in Philosophy of Religion
chapter |6 pages
The Limits of Neopragmatism
chapter |20 pages
On Georg Lukács
chapter |25 pages
Fredric Jameson's American Marxism
part |47 pages
Law and Culture
chapter |10 pages
Reassessing the Critical Legal Studies Movement
chapter |17 pages
Critical Legal Studies and a Liberal Critic
chapter |6 pages
Charles Taylor and the Critical Legal Studies Movement
chapter |12 pages
The Role of Law in Progressive Politics
part |39 pages
Explaining Race