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Title: The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (The Wisconsin Project on American Writers) by Cornel West ISBN: 0-299-11964-5 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Pub. Date: May, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Nice try, if you're an undergraduate
Comment: Nothing I could say about this book would be as compelling as reading an excerpt from it. Any excerpt. The writing lumbers with precisely that kind of late adolescent turgidity and overweaning insistence that makes reading undergraduate papers so unbearable; the argument is nothing more than a series of unsupported and simple-minded generalities; the depth of scholarship reaches about as far as the water in a children's wading pool. The only thing this forgettable little book establishes is that Cornel West knows as little about pragmatism as he does about effective writing. But as I said, don't take my word for it. Read the excerpt and see for yourself.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: AS a reader intimately interested in pragmatism I came to this book in anticipated expectancy. Unfortunately Cornel West has managed to write something I could scarcely credit: a book which makes pragmatism and pragmatists seem turgid and boring. I think this is primarily because West's own interests seem always to be overpowering his descriptions of the pragmatists he is writing about. West wants to write a manifesto but he has dressed it up as a genealogy. Unfortunately for this reader the clothes don't fit properly and what is presented seems vaguely ridiculous. I don't mean to be rude. Apparently in the States West is something of an intellectual celebrity who writes on matters of race and religion. In my own locality West is unknown and his agenda seems just as foreign. His idea of pragmatism as "cultural criticism" is the one bright spark in this book that I will take away from it. However, as his interests and mine are doomed to be forever different the lasting impression this book leaves is one of a writer over-intellectualising what is meant to be a philosophy of plain common-sense. Sorry Cornel, we just didn't hit it off.
Rating: 5
Summary: What made him famous
Comment: I found myself wondering, after arriving at Harvard, how Cornel West achieved such a high position in academic circles. For example, he is a University Professor, which simply put means he can teach at any school or department at Harvard University. His current works deal primarily with race and though they are extremely illuminating, they are more popular than academic. This is the book that put West at the height of Academia, Race Matters made him publicly popular. I suggest you read both in order to get into the mind of perhaps the most publicly influential intellectual of the last 5 years.
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Title: The Cornel West Reader by Cornel West ISBN: 0465091105 Publisher: BasicCivitas Books Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: The Revival of Pragmatism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Culture (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Morris Dickstein ISBN: 0822322455 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Race Matters by Cornel West ISBN: 0679749861 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Pragmatism : A Reader by Louis Menand ISBN: 0679775447 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity by Cornel West ISBN: 0664223435 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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