The Cornel West Reader by Cornel West
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Book Reviews of The Cornel West Reader
Book Review: Very deontologically consequentialistic
Summary: 5 Stars
THIS BOOK IS THE BEST exposition of an integrated epistemologically Nietzschean, post-aesthetic, fideistic, Neochristian-Marxist, ideology that transcends the common western notion of Kierkegaardian-existential, post-positivistic, solipsistic, psychologistic, a priori, and a Newtonian-post-rationalism that plagues the modern black man, THAT I"VE EVER READ!Book Review: Excellent!
Summary: 5 Stars
I truly believe that Cornel West is one of the preeminent socio-political thinkers of our time. Mr. West has the ability to engage his readers without patronizing them and to encourage thoughtful dialogue without lecturing. Anyone who lives in this country would benefit from reading Mr. West; not only social liberals.Book Review: Brother has a Mind
Summary: 5 Stars
and He knows How to use it&put it down Properly.I always enjoy any debate&Topic He is talking about.like on TV He is the same in His Books.a Dynimite Mind who explores many things&paints pictures from all points of views.if you have followed Cornel West's Career then add this to your Book-Self.check it out.Book Review: An important survey of modern American society and times
Summary: 5 Stars
Students of contemporary culture, Afro-American studies or philosophy alike will find the Cornel West Reader an important survey of modern American society and times. Chapters reveal and analyze facets of black experience, Marxism and race, politics and American pragmatism. An excellent guide.Book Review: lucid pensees for the new millenium...
Summary: 4 Stars
As an avowed atheist, I don't care for much of the content at work in West's treatment's of various cultural phenomena. I disagree with him on most of his more important ideas. And he isn't as critical of urban black culture as he should be (I think, and therein lies my own bias), given his own Chehkovian-Christian foundation... But if we read only the thinkers with whom we had profound agreement- what would that make of our perceptions? Without dialogue there is no community...
He deals with the seemingly contradictory elements at work in the human character in an interesting, if psuedo-absurdist fashion. And his optimism isn't a naive optimism, though, as I mentioned before, I think he has on cultural blinders. I also thinks he tends to romanticize various nihilisic phenomena deeply entrenched in black culture- his dalliance with hip-hop belies both his idealization of that culture and his need to be appreciated as 'authentic' by modern black America, a culture that seems (at least to me) to be quite anti-intellectual in any respects. How does a Harvard Doctor transcend his own thoughtful nature in order to initiate dialogue with both sides of the racial divide in America? Let's be honest here, America is a country that has bee, is and most likely always will be deeply obseessed with questions of race and identity. This puts Dr. West in an interesting position and it's illuminating to watch him wrestle with both the angels and demons of his fate...
I should add that Dr. West is a highly original and incisive thinker, a fine literary craftsman, and, I think, a boldly provocative scholar, in his own right, especially considering that he works within that bloated uber-vampire of university-systems, Harvard... Ultimately, his views enrich my own and enable me to more fully articulate my diffrences with him.
Finally, his thoughts on aesthetics (his insights into Chehkov are probably the most interesting of the non-russian treatments) and the black experience (as when he writes on Coltrane) are sublime. Whenever I put this book down, I am smiling.