Keeping faith: philosophy and race in America

'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.' - ArtforumKeeping 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

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 16. Race and social theory -- 17. The paradox of the African American rebellion.