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.
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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, RaceMatters (p. 216), became a bestseller earlier this year. Theessays in this longer collection mostly predate those in RaceMatters (seven are from the early to mid-80's) and were writtenfor a more academic audience.There's more philosophy than race in this odd assortment,which begins with a consideration of Matthew Arnold's seminalrole in defining our secular culture, moves on to assess
| 出版社 | Routledge |
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| 作者 | Cornel West |