West Cornel - Keeping Faith Philosophy And Race In America - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Keeping Faith Philosophy And Race In America
Author(s): West Cornel
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415964814
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2008
Series: Routledge Classics
Category: Humanities (History, Archaeology, Philosophy, Religion)