"The vast array of interests and vision of the West is spectacular and idealistic: it seems comfortable to question literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion and popular cultural forms." - Artforum Keeping Faith A rich, influential and personal collection of essays by one of the most eminent African American thinkers of our time. Drawing on the traditions of Western philosophy and modernity, Cornell West criticizes the structures of authority and repression because they work within American society and provide a way to reflect on human dignity and the difference again.

In its impressive range, West explores with confidence the politics and philosophy of America, the role of black thinker, legal theory and the future of liberal thought, and the fate of African Americans. Celebrating the extraordinary life of ordinary Americans, keeping faith is a petition for hope and a call for faith in the compensatory force of the human spirit..