Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America

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		Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America
		Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America

基本信息·出版社：Routledge
·页码：282 页
·出版日期：2008年09月
·ISBN：0415964814
·条形码：9780415964814
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Routledge Classics
·外文书名：保持信念

内容简介 '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.
作者简介 Cornel West is Professor of Religion and Chair of the Afro-American Studies Program at Princeton University. He lectures widely and appears frequently on television, including Conversations with Bill Moyers. His most recent book is Race Matters. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
编辑推荐 From Publishers Weekly
Readers who enjoyed the illuminating essays in West's bestselling Race Matters will be baffled by this collection of 17 academic essays. West is a formidable intellect, but only tenacious, grounded readers will find useful his analyses of philosphers like Georg Lukacs and Fredric Jameson, or his criticism of the radical movement known as Critical Legal Studies. Those looking for elaboration on the themes developed in Race Matters will find a mixed bag. Essays on "The New Cultural Politics of Difference" and "The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual" set out the options facing critics like himself, though they lack concrete examples. A final piece, on the conflicting legacies of 1960s black activism, offers valuable historical analysis, but it was written in 1984 and should have been updated with references to present politicians and debates.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Library Journal
As Henry James moved to Europe to write about America, so Princeton philosopher West ( Race Matters , LJ 3/15/93) finds a frame for his assessment of the state of the "New World African" through recent trips to Ethiopia. Influenced by Richard Rorty and Michel Foucault, West develops a "prophetic criticism" to explore the existential conditions of race in America. Collecting 17 previously published essays and reviews, West examines the problems of culture, canon, and the black intellectual; the limits of political engagement; the role of the "critical legal studies movement"; and the nature of race. While the essays are often repetitive and turgid in style, they are well informed and provocative, aware both of the power and the dangers of cultural criticism. An important book.
- T.L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Kirkus Reviews
West is the professor of religion and director of Afro- American studies at Princeton whose short essay collection, Race Matters (p. 216), became a bestseller earlier this year. The essays in this longer collection mostly predate those in Race Matters (seven are from the early to mid-80's) and were written for a more academic audience. There's more philosophy than race in this odd assortment, which begins with a consideration of Matthew Arnold's seminal role in defining our secular culture, moves on to assess various philosophers (the American Josiah Royce, the Hungarian Gy”rgy Luk cs), and ends with a dull overview of the ``African American Rebellion'' that began in the mid-1950's. West's own philosophical stance is clear: His generous humanist vision has been nourished by such various disciplines as Emersonian pragmatism (with its emphasis on ``the ethical significance of the future''), Marxism, and the prophetic Christian tradition that enjoins us ``to look at the world through the eyes of its victims.'' His message is clear, too: Although he feels that ``the quality of black intellectual exchange is at its worst since the Civil War'' and that the decline of American culture may be ``irreversible,'' he also sees the need to keep faith in the possibility of positive change. The challenge for intellectuals, black and white, is to move beyond ``contestation within the academy'' and to become ``critical organic catalysts'' in the wider community. Given this message, it's puzzling to find included here long essays on the American Marxist Fredric Jameson (whose works are ``confined to specialists...in the academy'') and the Critical Legal Studies movement (``an isolated...affair within the ivy halls of elite law schools''). West's voice is an important one, but this collection doesn't amplify it in a helpful way. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review
"...the best of contemporary philosophical insight, the best of inspired theological vision, the best of what public intellectual debate can aspire to." -- Patricia Williams, author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights

"Cornel West's sinewy, brilliantly analytic and encouraging voice sounds clearly and attractively in these essays." -- Edward W. Said

"If a salvific change is to be managed for the twenty-first century, West's profound writings will surely lead the way." -- Houston Baker

"Keeping Faith represents something like a 'greatest hits' album of West's, collecting and remastering some of his finest essays..." -- Paul Gilroy, ArtForum

"The strength of West's passion is magisterially complemented by the breadth of his intellectual range. He writes with the spirit of nineteenth-century American sages and the practical wisdom of twentieth-century urban rappers. If a salvific change is to be managed for the twenty-first century, West's profound writings will surely lead the way."
-Houston Baker
""Keeping Faith represents something like a greatest hits' album of West's, collecting and remastering some of his finest essays from a variety of disciplinary foci and tying them together with the bright red-white-and-blue ribbons of prophetic pragmatism.."
-Paul Gilroy, "ArtForum
"The best of Cornel West which is to say the best of contemporary philosophical insight, the best of inspired theological vision, the best of what public intellectual debate can aspire to."
-Patricia Williams, author of "The Alchemy of Race and Rights
"Cornel West's sinewy, brilliantly analytic and encouraging voice sounds clearly and attractively in these essays. They range across a remarkable range of philosophical, political, legal and cultural issues. Yet all of them are anchored in the realities of our time, to which Cornel West is not simply a lucid African-American guide equal to the complexities of real multiculturalism, but also an authentic teacher of hope and reason."
-Edward W. Said
..."this book provides uncommon insight into what West calls prophetic criticism'--critical analysis that inspires as well as condemns.."
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os Angeles Times


The strength of West's passion is magisterially complemented by the breadth of his intellectual range. He writes with the spirit of nineteenth-century American sages and the practical wisdom of twentieth-century urban rappers. If a salvific change is to be managed for the twenty-first century, West's profound writings will surely lead the way. -- Houston Baker
Keeping Faith represents something like a `greatest hits' album of West's, collecting and remastering some of his finest essays from a variety of disciplinary foci and tying them together with the bright red-white-and-blue ribbons of prophetic pragmatism. -- Paul Gilroy, ArtForum
The best of Cornel West which is to say the best of contemporary philosophical insight, the best of inspired theological vision, the best of what public intellectual debate can aspire to. -- Patricia Williams, author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights
Cornel West's sinewy, brilliantly analytic and encouraging voice sounds clearly and attractively in these essays. They range across a remarkable range of philosophical, political, legal and cultural issues. Yet all of them are anchored in the realities of our time, to which Cornel West is not simply a lucid African-American guide equal to the complexities of real multiculturalism, but also an authentic teacher of hope and reason. -- Edward W. Said
...this book provides uncommon insight into what West calls `prophetic criticism'--critical analysis that inspires as well as condemns. -- os Angeles Times
West brings an acute intelligence, wide reading, and training in philosophy and theology to bear on the irrationalities in all political camps. . . . The left, the black movement and all others would profit by a careful reading of Keeping Faith. -- Boston Globe
keeping Faith, I believe, truly establishes West as one of North America's premier philosophical minds. -- Canadian Philosophical Reviews
. . . well-informed and provocative, aware both of the power and the dangers of cultural criticism. An important book. -- Library Journal
Indeed, readers who find Race Matters provocative but thin, a tasty but unfilling appetizer, will find Keeping Faith to be a much more satisfying main course. -- Harvard Review
The sheer range of West's interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable writing about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and popular-cultural forms. . . . this is a better introduction to West's thought than anything produced so far. -- Artforum

The strength of Wests passion is magisterially complemented by the breadth of his intellectual range. He writes with the spirit of nineteenth-century American sages and the practical wisdom of twentieth-century urban rappers. If a salvific change is to be managed for the twenty-first century, Wests profound writings will surely lead the way. -- Houston Baker
Keeping Faith represents something like a `greatest hits album of Wests, collecting and remastering some of his finest essays from a variety of disciplinary foci and tying them together with the bright red-white-and-blue ribbons of prophetic pragmatism. -- Paul Gilroy, ArtForum
The best of Cornel West which is to say the best of contemporary philosophical insight, the best of inspired theological vision, the best of what public intellectual debate can aspire to. -- Patricia Williams, author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights
Cornel Wests sinewy, brilliantly analytic and encouraging voice sounds clearly and attractively in these essays. They range across a remarkable range of philosophical, political, legal and cultural issues. Yet all of them are anchored in the realities of our time, to which Cornel West is not simply a lucid African-American guide equal to the complexities of real multiculturalism, but also an authentic teacher of hope and reason. -- Edward W. Said
...this book provides uncommon insight into what West calls `prophetic criticism--critical analysis that inspires as well as condemns. -- os Angeles Times
West brings an acute intelligence, wide reading, and training in philosophy and theology to bear on the irrationalities in all political camps. . . . The left, the black movement and all others would profit by a careful reading of Keeping Faith. -- Boston Globe
keeping Faith, I believe, truly establishes West as one of North Americas premier philosophical minds. -- Canadian Philosophical Reviews
. . . well-informed and provocative, aware both of the power and the dangers of cultural criticism. An important book. -- Library Journal
Indeed, readers who find Race Matters provocative but thin, a tasty but unfilling appetizer, will find Keeping Faith to be a much more satisfying main course. -- Harvard Review
The sheer range of Wests interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable writing about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and popular-cultural forms. . . . this is a better introduction to Wests thought than anything produced so far. -- Artforum --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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