{"product_id":"keeping-faith-9780415964814","title":"Keeping Faith","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'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.' - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eArtforum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKeeping Faith\u003c\/em\u003e 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, \u003cem\u003eKeeping Faith\u003c\/em\u003e is a petition to hope and a call to faith in the redemptiv\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: The Difficulty of Keeping Faith. \u003cstrong\u003eCultural Criticism and Race\u003c\/strong\u003e 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. \u003cstrong\u003ePhilosophy and Political Engagement \u003c\/strong\u003e6. 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. \u003cstrong\u003eLaw and Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e 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. \u003cstrong\u003eExplaining Race\u003c\/strong\u003e 16. Race and Social Theory 17. The Paradox of the African American Rebellion Notes Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018218635607,"sku":"9780415964814","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415964814.jpg?v=1750776057","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/keeping-faith-9780415964814","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}