Cornel West
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cornel West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cornel |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“The Best of Us”: A Conversation with Cornel West
James C. Jones interviewed Dr. Cornel West in February 2023 in New York, New York.Jones: One of the first things that I wanted to just ask, Dr. West, is about your general experience or even your introduction to Mormonism or to our world. I do know that Chase N. Peterson was the president of the University of Utah and there is an intersection of the two of your resumes at Harvard.So can you tell me a little bit about what that relationship or tha…
Chekhov in Context
A Black Intellectual's Odyssey: From a Pennsylvania Milltown to the Ivy League
In 1969, Martin Kilson became the first tenured African American professor at Harvard University, where he taught African and African American politics for over thirty years. In A Black Intellectual's Odyssey, Kilson takes readers on a fascinating journey from his upbringing in the small Pennsylvania milltown of Ambler to his experiences attending Lincoln University—the country's oldest HBCU—to pursuing graduate study at Harvard before spending h…
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America
Horace Pippin's Challenge to Art Criticism
I Hear My People Singing: Voices of African American Princeton
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. In evoking the act of breaking bread, the book calls upon the various traditions of …
Black prophetic fire
Celebrated intellectual and activist Cornel West offers an unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida Wells-Barne…
A Figure of Our Times: An Interview With Cornel West on W. E. B. Du Bois
This interview is part of a larger project on the Black prophetic tradition and its impact on today's ongoing struggle for justice and equality. We are concerned with the special challenges facing Black public intellectuals and activists, particularly with the impediments deriving from their position as outsiders in society; we consider the philosophical and political voices that helped form their own thinking as well as the social conditions tha…
The Guardian Poplar: A Memoir of Deep Roots, Journey, and Rediscovery: A Memoir of Deep Roots, Journey, and Rediscovery
Keeping Faith
'The sheer range of West's interests and insights is staggering and exemplary: he appears equally comfortable talking about literature, ethics, art, jurisprudence, religion, and popular-cultural forms.' - Artforum Keeping Faith is a rich, moving and deeply personal collection of essays from one of the leading African American intellectuals of our age. Drawing upon the traditions of Western philosophy and modernity, Cornel West critiques structure…
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America
Left Matters: An Interview with Cornel West
February 28, 2011 John Ehrenberg (JE): Let's start with a couple of things that may have begun to reshape the political climate. One is this extraordinary upsurge of popular energy and democratic f
Afterword
Afterword Cornel West (bio) Sheldon Wolin is the greatest political theorist of and for democracy in our time. He also is the towering humanist intellectual in America who best exemplifies a classic sense of vocation and a modernist allegiance to invocation. In other words, Wolin is first and foremost a courageous thinker whose imaginative vision and magisterial scholarship are shaped by the social misery of ordinary people. Hence, he is attuned …
Metaphysics, money & the Messiah: A conversation about Melville's “The Confidence-Man”
White on White/Black on Black
White on White/Black on Black is a unique contribution to the philosophy of race. The book explores how fourteen philosophers, seven white and seven black, philosophically understand the dynamics of the process of racialization. Combined, the contributions demonstrate different and similar conceptual trajectories of raced identities that emerge from within and across the racial divide. Each of the fourteen philosophers, who share a textual space …
Closing remarks
Taking Parenting Public: The Case for a New Social Movement
Taking Parenting Public makes a compelling case that parenting has become dangerously undervalued in America today. It calls for a new investment—both personal and public—into the work of raising children and argues that we are all 'stockholders' in the next generation. With a foreword by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West, Taking Parenting Public crosses boundaries to bring together thinkers from diverse fields spanning the political spectrum. I…
The Cornel West Reader
"The best work of an always compelling, often controversial and absolutley essential philosopher of the American experience, modernity, and the human condition."
Round table on the future of the left
The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s
Journal Article The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s. Ed. by Mark K. Bauman and Berkley Kalin. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press and Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States. Ed. by Jack Salzman and Cornel West. New York: Oxford University Press Get access Frederick M. Binder Frederick M. Binder College of Staten Island, City University of New York, N…
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
Journal Article Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Ed. by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West. 5 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1996. xcii, 3,203 pp. $475.00/set, ISBN 0-02-897345-3/set.) Get access V. P. Franklin V. P. Franklin Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1471–1…
A Symposium on the Life and Work of Sterling Brown: With Chet Lasell, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Paula Giddings, Sterling Stuckey, Wahneema Lubiano, and Cornel West
Callaloo - Volume 21, Number 4, Fall 1998
Strug-Gles Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States
Recent flashpoints in Black-Jewish relations--Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March, the violence in Crown Heights, Leonard Jeffries’ polemical speeches, the O.J. Simpson verdict, and the contentious responses to these events--suggest just how wide the gap has become in the fragile coalition that was formed during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Instead of critical dialogue and respectful exchange, we have witnessed battles that too often c…
Struggles in the promised land: Towards a history of Black-Jewish relations in the United States
Recent flashpoints in Black-Jewish relations-Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, the violence in Crown Heights, Leonard Jeffries' polemical speeches, the O.J. Simpson verdict, and the contentious responses to these events-suggest just how wide the gap has become in the fragile coalition that was formed during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Instead of critical dialogue and respectful exchange, we have witnessed battles that too often con…
The New Cultural Politics of Difference
In the last few years of the twentieth century, there is emerging a significant shift in the sensibilities and outlooks of critics and artists.In fact, I would go so far as to claim that a new kind of cultural worker is in the making, associated with a new politics of difference.These new forms of intellectual consciousness advance new conceptions of the vocation of critic and artist, attempting to undermine the prevailing disciplinary divisions …
A Matter of Life and Death
The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual
The peculiarities of the American social structure, and the position of the intellectual class within it, make the functional role of the negro intellectual a special one. The negro intellectual must deal intimately with the white power structure and cultural apparatus, and the inner realities of the black world at one and the same time. But in order to function successfully in this role, he has to be acutely aware of the nature of the American s…
Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity
In this, his premiere work, Cornel West provides readers with a new understanding of the African American experience based largely on his own political and cultural perspectives borne out of his own life's experiences. He challenges African Americans to consider the incorporation of Marxism into their theological perspectives, thereby adopting the mindset that it is class more so than race that renders one powerless in America. Armed with a new i…
Reconstructing the American Left: The Challenge of Jesse Jackson
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
Journal Article Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Ed. by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel West. 5 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1996. xcii, 3,203 pp. $475.00/set, ISBN 0-02-897345-3/set.) Get access V. P. Franklin V. P. Franklin Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1471–1…
Interview with Cornel West
Anders Stephanson: Philosophically speaking, you come out of the American tradition of pragmatism. In everyday parlance, pragmatism is often understood as adjusting in an almost opportunistic manner to existing circumstances. Philosophical pragmatism is something quite different. Cornel West: When philosophers talk about pragmatism, they are talking about Charles Peirce, William James, andJohn Dewey For me, it is principally Dewey Three theses ar…
The Paradox of the Afro-American Rebellion
The distinctive feature of Afro-American life in the 60s was the rise on the historical stage of a small yet determined petite bourgeoisie promoting liberal reforms, and the revolt of the masses, whose aspirations exceeded those of liberalism but whose containment was secured by political appeasement, cultural control and state repression.Afro-America encountered the modern American capitalist order (in its expansionist phase)-as urban dwellers, …
Fredric Jameson's Marxist Hermeneutics
Nietzsche's Prefiguration of Postmodern American Philosophy
Cornel West, Nietzsche's Prefiguration of Postmodern American Philosophy, boundary 2, Vol. 9/10, Vol. 9, no. 3 - Vol. 10, no. 1, Why Nietzsche Now? A Boundary 2 Symposium (Spring - Autumn, 1981), pp. 241-269
Nietzsche's Prefiguration of Postmodern American Philosophy
Cornel West, Nietzsche's Prefiguration of Postmodern American Philosophy, boundary 2, Vol. 9/10, Vol. 9, no. 3 - Vol. 10, no. 1, Why Nietzsche Now? A Boundary 2 Symposium (Spring - Autumn, 1981), pp. 241-269
Fredric Jameson's Marxist Hermeneutics
Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity
In this, his premiere work, Cornel West provides readers with a new understanding of the African American experience based largely on his own political and cultural perspectives borne out of his own life's experiences. He challenges African Americans to consider the incorporation of Marxism into their theological perspectives, thereby adopting the mindset that it is class more so than race that renders one powerless in America. Armed with a new i…
Religion and the Left: Introduction
Notwithstanding the secular sensibilities of most leftist intellectuals and activists, religion permeates and pervades the lives of the majority of people in the capitalist world. And all signs indicate that the prevailing crisis in the capitalist world is not solely an economic or political one. Recent inquiries into the specificity of racism, patriarchy, homophobia, state repression, bureaucratic domination, ecological subjugation, and nuclear …
The Paradox of the Afro-American Rebellion
The distinctive feature of Afro-American life in the 60s was the rise on the historical stage of a small yet determined petite bourgeoisie promoting liberal reforms, and the revolt of the masses, whose aspirations exceeded those of liberalism but whose containment was secured by political appeasement, cultural control and state repression.Afro-America encountered the modern American capitalist order (in its expansionist phase)-as urban dwellers, …
A Very Partial Chronology
Reconstructing the American Left: The Challenge of Jesse Jackson
Inmemory Ofhera Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins
The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual
The peculiarities of the American social structure, and the position of the intellectual class within it, make the functional role of the negro intellectual a special one. The negro intellectual must deal intimately with the white power structure and cultural apparatus, and the inner realities of the black world at one and the same time. But in order to function successfully in this role, he has to be acutely aware of the nature of the American s…
Communism in Harlem
Review of Communists in Harlem During the Depression by Mark Naison.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
On Signs
Marx's Social Critique of Culture. Louis Dupré
The dilemma of the black intellectual
The peculiarities of the American social structure, and the position of the intellectual class within it, make the functional role of the negro intellectual a special one. The negro intellectual must deal intimately with the white power structure and cultural apparatus, and the inner realities of the black world at one and the same time. But in order to function successfully in this role, he has to be acutely aware of the nature of the American s…
Rethinking Marxism
Review of Rethinking Marxism: Struggles in Marxist Theory. Essays for Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Black Radicalism and the Marxist Tradition
Review of Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism
Interview with Cornel West
Anders Stephanson: Philosophically speaking, you come out of the American tradition of pragmatism. In everyday parlance, pragmatism is often understood as adjusting in an almost opportunistic manner to existing circumstances. Philosophical pragmatism is something quite different. Cornel West: When philosophers talk about pragmatism, they are talking about Charles Peirce, William James, andJohn Dewey For me, it is principally Dewey Three theses ar…
Truth or Consequences
The New Cultural Politics of Difference
In the last few years of the twentieth century, there is emerging a significant shift in the sensibilities and outlooks of critics and artists.In fact, I would go so far as to claim that a new kind of cultural worker is in the making, associated with a new politics of difference.These new forms of intellectual consciousness advance new conceptions of the vocation of critic and artist, attempting to undermine the prevailing disciplinary divisions …
Decentring Europe: A memorial lecture for James Snead, introduced by Colin MacCabe
Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. evoking the act of breaking bread, the book calls upon the various traditions of sharin…
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism
Journal Article The American Evasion of Philosophy. A Genealogy of Pragmatism. By Cornel West. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. xii + 279 pp. Cloth, $42.50, ISBN 0-299-11960-2. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-299-11964-5.) Get access Howard Brick Howard Brick University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Page 687, https://doi.org/1…
A Matter of Life and Death
The Legacy of Raymond Williams
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