Cornel West
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African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist
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Philosophy
Cornel West's Degrees
- PhD Philosophy Princeton University
Why Is Cornel West Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, theologist, political activist, social critic, actor, and public intellectual. The grandson of a Baptist minister, West's primary philosophy focuses on the roles of race, gender, and class struggle in American society. A socialist, West draws intellectual contributions from multiple traditions, including Christianity, the black church, democratic socialism, left-wing populism, neopragmatism, and transcendentalism. Among his most influential books are Race Matters and Democracy Matters .
Cornel West's Published Works
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Published Works
- Out There : Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures (1990) (413)
- Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (2004) (314)
- Democratic evasions: Cornel West and the politics of pragmatism. Author's reply : The American evasion of philosophy: a genealogy of pragmatism (1993) (307)
- The American evasion of philosophy (1989) (296)
- The Cornel West Reader (1999) (264)
- The New Cultural Politics of Difference (1990) (251)
- Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (1983) (245)
- Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America (1993) (209)
- Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (1999) (198)
- The American evasion of philosophy : a genealogy of pragmatism (1990) (192)
- The culture of disbelief : how American law and politics trivialize religious devotion (1994) (157)
- The Future of the Race (1996) (131)
- Ethics After Babel: The Languages of Morals and Their Discontents by Jeffrey Stout. Boston, Beacon, 1988. 338 pp. $27.50 (1989) (112)
- Post-Analytic Philosophy (1988) (90)
- Marxist Theory and the Specificity of Afro-American Oppression (1988) (84)
- The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America's Beleaguered Moms and Dads (1998) (79)
- Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times (1993) (70)
- The Ethical Dimensions Of Marxist Thought (1991) (58)
- The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs (2008) (56)
- The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto (2012) (53)
- Sex and Suicide (1992) (52)
- Leadership in your midst: tapping the hidden strengths of minority executives. (2005) (48)
- Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History (1996) (43)
- African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (2003) (41)
- The house that race built : original essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and others on Black Americans and politics in America today (1998) (41)
- The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country (2000) (39)
- Black Popular Culture : A Project by Michele Wallace (1992) (34)
- Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism (1993) (33)
- Prophetic Reflections: Notes on Race and Power in America (1993) (29)
- Minority Discourse and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation (1987) (28)
- The suitcase : refugee voices from Bosnia and Croatia (1997) (28)
- The Future of American Progressivism: An Initiative for Political and Economic Reform (1998) (27)
- Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin (1995) (26)
- Interview with Cornel West (1989) (26)
- What Went Wrong? The Creation and Collapse of the Black-Jewish Alliance.@@@Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin. (1996) (23)
- Against the wall (2015) (23)
- Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture (1988) (22)
- The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual (1985) (22)
- Black Power: Three Books from Exile: Black Power; The Color Curtain; and White Man, Listen! (1954) (22)
- Hope on a Tightrope: Words & Wisdom (2008) (20)
- Struggles in the promised land : towards a history of Black-Jewish relations in the United States (1997) (20)
- Philosophy and the Afro‐American Experience (1977) (19)
- Pragmatism and Democracy: Assessing Jeffrey Stout's Democracy and Tradition (2010) (19)
- Nietzsche’s Prefiguration of Postmodern American Philosophy (1981) (17)
- Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America (1997) (16)
- Black prophetic fire : in dialogue with and edited by Christa Buschendorf (2014) (14)
- The Courage to Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption (1999) (13)
- Spirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century (1997) (13)
- On Afro-American Popular Music: From Bebop to Rap (1992) (12)
- INMEMORY OFHERA FEMINIST THEOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF CHRISTIAN ORIGINS (1985) (11)
- The Role of Law in Progressive Politics (2021) (10)
- Religion and the Left: Introduction (1984) (10)
- Jews & Blacks : a dialogue on race, religion, and culture in America (1996) (10)
- Race and Justice: Rodney King and O. J. Simpson in a House Divided (1996) (9)
- A Grand Tradition of Struggle (2000) (9)
- The Prophetic Tradition in Afro-America (1985) (8)
- Toward a Socialist Theory of Racism (2005) (8)
- The Paradox of the Afro-American Rebellion (1984) (8)
- Frederic Jameson’s Marxist Hermeneutics (1982) (8)
- Between Dewey and Gramsci: Unger’s Emancipatory Experimentalism (1987) (8)
- Race and Social Justice in America. (1994) (7)
- Review of The Promise of Narrative Theology: Recovering the Gospel in the Church (1984) (7)
- Black Radicalism and the Marxist Tradition (1988) (6)
- Review of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1981) (6)
- Parrhesia as a Principle of Democratic Pedagogy. (2009) (6)
- Reconstructing the American Left: The Challenge of Jesse Jackson (1984) (5)
- Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics and the Myth of the Given (1979) (5)
- Prophetic Imagination: Confronting The New Jim Crow & Income Inequality in America (2015) (5)
- Race and Social Theory (2012) (4)
- Hegel, Hermeneutics, Politics: A Reply to Charles Taylor (1989) (4)
- Decentring Europe: a memorial lecture for James Snead, introduced by Colin MacCabe (1991) (4)
- We have not been moved : resisting racism and militarism in 21st century America (2012) (4)
- Reassessing the Critical Legal Studies Movement (2021) (4)
- The Legacy of Raymond Williams (1992) (4)
- Decentering Europe: The Contemporary Crisis in Culture, A Memorial Lecture for James Snead (1991) (4)
- Trading on the Margin@@@Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Culture. (1991) (3)
- Pragmatism and the Sense of the Tragic (2021) (3)
- The Professor and the Prophet@@@The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism. (1991) (3)
- Why I Left Harvard University (2005) (3)
- The Trump Era: hope in a time of escalating despair (2017) (3)
- “What It Will Take to Build a Family-Friendly America” (2002) (3)
- ON FREI'S ECLIPSE OF BIBLICAL NARRATIVE (1983) (3)
- The Paradox of the African American Rebellion (2012) (3)
- Foreword: Strong Men Keep A - Comin On (2008) (2)
- Not a Minute to Hate (2009) (2)
- The Limits of Neopragmatism (2012) (2)
- The Emersonian Prehistory of American Pragmatism (1989) (2)
- Black-Brown Relations: Are Alliances Possible?. (1997) (2)
- “What it means to be human!”: A Conversation with Cornel West (2017) (2)
- Left Matters: An Interview with Cornel West (2011) (2)
- Theory, Pragmatisms and Politics (2012) (2)
- The Decline and Resurgence of American Pragmatism: W. V. Quine and Richard Rorty (1989) (2)
- dialogue between bell hooks and Cornel West (2016) (1)
- A Very Partial Chronology (1984) (1)
- introduction to Cornel West (2016) (1)
- The Outsiders@@@Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin.@@@Blacks and Jews: Alliances and Arguments. (1995) (1)
- Metaphysics, money & the Messiah: a conversation about Melville's “The Confidence-Man” (2007) (1)
- A Prisoner of Hope in the Night of the American Empire (2011) (1)
- Review of The Grammar of Faith (1980) (1)
- The Coming-of-Age of American Pragmatism: John Dewey (1989) (1)
- Horace Pippin's Challenge to Art Criticism (2021) (1)
- Fredric Jameson's American Marxism (2021) (1)
- Reimagining Professional Development. Four Presentations from AAHE's National Conference on School/College Collaboration (4th, Pittsburgh, PA, December 5-8, 1993). (1993) (1)
- A Note on Race and Architecture (2012) (1)
- CLS and a Liberal Critic (1988) (1)
- Review of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (1985) (1)
- Black Critics and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation (2021) (1)
- Prophetic Pragmatism: Cultural Criticism and Political Engagement (2020) (1)
- 6 / A PRISONER OF HOPE IN THE NIGHT OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE. Dialogue with Gabriel Rockhill (2011) (1)
- [The Generic Structure of Afro-American Theology by Dr. James Evans] (audio) (1982) (0)
- Power and Freedom in Jane Austen's Novels (2012) (0)
- Humanistic Criticism , Prophetic Pragmatism , and the Question of Antifoundationalism – Remarks on Edward Said (2005) (0)
- The black church and oppositional politics (1988) (0)
- Responding to Contemporary Crisis@@@Race Matters. (1994) (0)
- John P. Gunnemann, The Moral Meaning of Revolution (1981) (0)
- Preaching in the Streets and in the Academy (1993) (0)
- Cornel West interviewed by bell hooks (2016) (0)
- Appreciating Stout's Commitments to Democracy (2004) (0)
- 15. Hope and Despair: Past and Present (2018) (0)
- black women intellectuals by bell hooks (2016) (0)
- The Historic Emergence of American Pragmatism (1989) (0)
- Dispensing with Metaphysics in Religious Thought (2011) (0)
- Marx's Social Critique of Culture. Louis Dupré (1986) (0)
- “A blues man in the life of the mind, and a jazz man in the world of ideas” (2011) (0)
- Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (1998) (0)
- Critical Legal Studies and a Liberal Critic (2021) (0)
- the dilemma of the black intellectual by Cornel West (2016) (0)
- black men and women partnership in the 1990s (2016) (0)
- Race Matters (2019) (0)
- The Historicist Turn in Philosophy of Religion (2012) (0)
- “Catechism, Bayonet, and Scepter”: The Protestant Churches and the State (2018) (0)
- [Book Review of “There is a River” by Vincent Harding] (audio) (1982) (0)
- Philosophical Faith in Action (1999) (0)
- "What it means to be human!" (2017) (0)
- Nietzsche's Prefiguration of Postmodern American Philosophy in Why Nietzsche Now?. (1981) (0)
- Communism in Harlem (1985) (0)
- Book Review:The Moral Meaning of Revolution Jon P. Gunnemann (1981) (0)
- Foreword: A Fascinating World (2017) (0)
- introduction to bell hooks (2016) (0)
- Hope for the Long Run with Cornel West (1990) (0)
- And the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America's First Feminists (2017) (0)
- The Burden Carried by African American Men (2015) (0)
- Review of Jeffrey Stout, Ethics after Babel: the Languages of Moralsand Their Discontents (1989) (0)
- Alvin Ailey: Signposts of an American Visionary (2018) (0)
- Fear and Courage: A conversation (2017) (0)
- Review of Louis Dupré, Marx’s Social Critique of Culture (1986) (0)
- Charles Taylor and the Critical Legal Studies Movement (2012) (0)
- Lesley College Diversity Day Keynote Speech (1997) (0)
- The Task of Ethics for Black Ethicists, by Dr. Peter Paris (video) (1981) (0)
- The Challenge of Social Democracy (2018) (0)
- Cornel West: American Radicalism (1995) (0)
- Black-Jewish Dialogue: Beyond Rootless Universalism and Ethnic Chauvinism (2016) (0)
- Conclusion: The Author Responds (1993) (0)
- In Memory of Marvin Gaye (1992) (0)
- Review of Juan Luis Segundo, Faith and Ideologies (1984) (0)
- Review of Manning Marable, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy and Society (1986) (0)
- Review of Nicholas Rescher, Pascal's Wager: A Study of Practical Reasoning in Philosophical Theology (1986) (0)
- Fear and Courage (2017) (0)
- [Continued-The Generic Structure of Afro-American Theology by Dr. James Evans and Book Review: Cornel West and Charles Long] (audio) (1982) (0)
- A Quest for the Historical Troeltsch (2018) (0)
- [Black Philosophy] (audio) (1978) (0)
- bell hooks interviewed by Cornel West (2016) (0)
- Lukács: A Reassessment (2011) (0)
- Philosophy and the Afro-american Experience in Philosophy and the Black Experience. (1977) (0)
- [Discussion with Bill Jones on Religion and Theological Reflections on Alex Haley’s Roots] (audio) (1978) (0)
- “A FIGURE OF OUR TIMES” (2013) (0)
- Philosophy (is) a critical disposition of wrestling with desire in the face of death, dialogue in the face of dogmatism, (and) democracy in the face of despotism. (2013) (0)
- Editorial Board (2011) (0)
- Cornel West at NABSE (1994) (0)
- commodification—the selling of human labor power to profit-maximizing capitalists—is the primary source of domination in capitalist societies and that reification-the appearance of this relation between persons and classes as relations between things and prices-is the major historical process agains (2013) (0)
- [Prophesy Deliverance Book Review: Cornel West and Charles Long] (audio) (1982) (0)
- The Dilemma of the Mid-Century Pragmatic Intellectual (1989) (0)
- “Thy Kingdom Come! Thy Will be Done on Earth!” The Challenge of Christian Socialism (2018) (0)
- The Generic Structure of Afro-American Theology and Response by Cornell West and Book Review by Cornell West and Charles Long (video) (1980) (0)
- Kelly Brown’s Critique of Black and Feminist Theological Responses to Patriarchy: Racial and Sexual Oppression (video) (1982) (0)
- Book Review: How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy and Society, by Manning Marable, Boston: South End Press, 1983 (1986) (0)
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