The Cornel West Reader

770 Pages·2000·6.44 MB·English

by  Cornel West

The
CORNEL WEST
Reader
BOOKS ALSO BY CORN EL WEST
Prophesy Deliverance! An AfroAmerican Revolutionary Christianity (1982)
Theology in the Americas: Detroit II (1982)
(Co-Editor)
PostAnalytic Philosophy (1985)
(Edited with john Rajchman)
Prophetic Fragments (1988)
The American Evasion of Philosophy (1989)
Out There: Margin alization and Contemporary Cultures (1990)
(Co-Editor)
The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought (1991)
Breaking Bread (1991)
(with bell hooks)
Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times (1993)
Prophetic Reflections (1993)
Race Matters (1993)
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America (1993)
James Snead, White Screens, Black Images (1994)
(Edited with Colin McCabe)
Jews & Blacks : Let the Healing Begin (1995)
(with Michael Lerner)
The Future of the Race (1996)
(with Henry Louis Gates, -.)
Struggles in the Promised Land (1997)
(Edited with lack Salzman)
Restoring Hope (1997)
The War Against Parents (1998)
(with Sylvia Ann Hewlett)
The Future of American Progressivism (1998)
(with Roberto Mangabeira Unger)
The Courage to Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption (1999)
(Edited with Quinton Hosford Dixie)

. . . WRITE ABOUT THIS YOUNG MAN SQUEEZING DROP BY DROP
THE SLAVE OUT OF HIMSELF AND WAKING ONE FINE MORNING
FEELING THAT REAL HUMAN BLOOD, NOT A SLAVE'S, IS FLOWING
IN HIS VEINS.
-Anton Chekhov
To BE A MUSICIAN IS REALLY SOMETHING. IT GOES VERY, VERY
DEEP. MY MUSIC IS THE SPIRITUAL EXPRESSION OF WHAT I AM-MY
FAITH, MY KNOWLEDGE, MY BEING. . . . WHEN YOU BEGIN TO SEE
THE POSSIBILITIES OF MUSIC, YOU DESIRE TO DO SOMETHING
REALLY GOOD FOR PEOPLE, TO HELP HUMANITY FREE ITSELF
FROM ITS HANG-UPS.
-John Coltrane
TO THE MEMORY AND LEGACY OF MY MODERN ARTISTIC SOUL
MATES
John Coltrane
Federico Garcia Lorca
Franz Kafka
Paul Celan
T nnessee Williams
Giacomo Leopardi
Samuel Beckett
Sarah Vaughan
Muriel Rukeyser
Thomas Hardy
.Nikos Kazantzakis
Toni Morrison
AND ABOVE ALL
Anton Chekhov
Preface xiii
Introduction: To Be Human, Modern and American xv