Keeping faith : philosophy and race in America /​ Cornel West

Title

• Keeping faith : philosophy and race in America / Cornel West.

Author

• West, Cornel, (author.)

Published

• New York : Routledge, 2009.

Content Types

• text

Carrier Types

• volume

Physical Description

• xvi, 282 pages ; 22 cm.

Series

• Routledge classics
• Routledge classics.

Subjects

• Race relations.
• Ethnische Beziehung.
• Politische Philosophie.
• Schwarze.
• African Americans -- Intellectual life.
• African Americans -- Politics and government.
• USA.
• United States.
• United States -- Race relations.

Contents

• The new cultural politics of difference
• Black critics and the pitfalls of canon formation
• A note on race and architecture
• Horace Pippin's challenge to art criticism
• The dilemma of the Black intellectual
• Theory, pragmatisms, and politics
• Pragmatism and the sense of the tragic
• The historicist turn in philosophy of religion
• The limits of neopragmatism
• On Georg Lukács
• Fredric Jameson's American Marxism
• Reassessing the critical legal studies movement
• Critical legal studies and a liberal critic
• Charles Taylor and the critical legal studies movement
• The role of law in progressive politics
• Race and social theory
• The paradox of the African American rebellion.

Notes

• Formerly CIP.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

• English