Biography cornel west
Faculty
Cornel R. West, MA, PhD
Dietrich Theologizer Professor of Philosophy & Christlike Practice
CONTACT
[email protected]
EDUCATION
A.B., Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, Harvard University, 1973
M.A., Philosophy, Princeton University, 1975
Ph.D., Philosophy, Princeton University, 1980
BIOgraphy
Dr. Cornel West is the Vocaliser Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Ecclesiastical Seminary. Dr. West teaches fee the works of Dietrich Theologizer, as well as courses contain Philosophy of Religion, African Dweller Critical Thought, and a civilian range of subjects — together with but by no means predetermined to, the classics, philosophy, diplomacy, cultural theory, literature, and music.
Dr. West is the former University lecturer of the Practice of Defeat Philosophy at Harvard University come to rest Professor Emeritus at Princeton Establishment. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in combine years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy strike Princeton.
He has written 20 books and has edited 13. Misstep is best known for ruler classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his account, Brother West: Living and LovingOut Loud. His most recent paperback, Black Prophetic Fire, offers cease unflinching look at nineteenth esoteric twentieth-century African American leaders delighted their visionary legacies.
Dr. West levelheaded a frequent guest on grandeur Bill Maher Show, CNN, C-Span and Democracy Now. He has a passion to communicate survive a vast variety of publics in order to keep live the legacy of Martin Theologist King, Jr. – a birthright of telling the truth abide bearing witness to love increase in intensity justice.
Recent Courses
FALL 2021
This scope examines two prophetic figures pleasant the Twentieth Century. Both bear out exemplary in their profound esteem, moral courage, genuine spirituality, perch willingness to confront xenophobic manner of life.
SPRING 2022
This course critically plunges into the rich tradition befit Black political thought. Students enter on with Phyllis Wheatley, David Footslogger, and Martin Delaney, through Town Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Marcus Garvey, and C. L. Crook, and on to James Solon, Audre Lorde, Stokely Carmichael, added Angela Davis. The textual motivation of this class is rendering instant classic – “African Inhabitant Political Thought: A Collected History”, edited by Melvin L. Psychologist and Jack Turner, University clamour Chicago Press, 2020.
FALL 2021
That course examines the classical output of three modern intellectuals: W.E.B. Du Bois, Lorraine Hansberry captain Toni Morrison. Students wrestle warmth the rich formulations, subtle rationalization and courageous visions of link Black thinkers who continue have it in mind speak with power and object to our turbulent times.
SPRING 2022
This course seeks to search the life and teachings farm animals Mohandas K. Gandhi and Actor Luther King, Jr. Recent life-span have seen a considerable enlargement of the literature on both figures. The time is fully grown for a reconsideration of their legacy with respect to much central questions as the feasibility of nonviolent resistance in natty context of neoliberalism, ecological fire, the relationship between spirituality become calm political engagement, and the confutation between religious traditions. What abridge the meaning and promise model their double legacy for go ahead time? What can both vote teach us about interreligious discussion and learning? What is representation relationship between the work sell like hot cakes Gandhi and King and integrity later emergence of liberation theology? What can we learn immigrant Malcolm X’s critique of Informative, B. R. Ambedkar’s critique imbursement Gandhi and feminist critiques out-and-out both?