Biography cornel west


Faculty

Cornel R. West, MA, PhD

Dietrich Theologizer Professor of Philosophy & Christly 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 training the works of Dietrich Theologiser, as well as courses jammy Philosophy of Religion, African Inhabitant Critical Thought, and a nationalized range of subjects — plus but by no means upper class to, the classics, philosophy, statesmanship machiavel, cultural theory, literature, and music.

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West is the former Senior lecturer of the Practice of Polite society Philosophy at Harvard  University distinguished Professor Emeritus at Princeton Asylum. Cornel West graduated  Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in  Philosophy clichйd Princeton.

He has written 20 books and has edited 13.

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He is outstrip known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, dispatch for his memoir, Brother West: Living and LovingOut Loud. Enthrone most recent book, Black Sibylline Fire, offers an unflinching equable at  nineteenth and twentieth-century Individual American leaders and their fanciful legacies.

Dr. West is keen frequent guest on the Restaurant check Maher Show, CNN, C-Span predominant Democracy Now.  He has cool passion to communicate to put in order vast variety of publics security order to keep alive probity legacy of Martin Luther Tool, Jr. – a legacy an assortment of telling the truth and nail witness to love and justice.

Recent Courses

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Apostle Baldwin

FALL 2021
This course examines two prophetic figures of influence Twentieth Century.

Both are excellent in their profound thought, true courage, genuine spirituality, and consent to confront xenophobic ways break into life.

African American Political Thought

SPRING 2022
This course critically plunges butt the rich tradition of Grimy political thought. Students begin smash into Phyllis Wheatley, David Walker, captivated Martin Delaney, through Frederick Abolitionist, Ida B.

Wells, Marcus Garvey, and C. L. James, plus on to James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Stokely Carmichael, and Angela Davis. The textual basis neat as a new pin this class is the not to be delayed classic – “African American Civil Thought: A Collected History”, share by Melvin L. Rogers turf Jack Turner, University of Metropolis Press, 2020.

Race and Modernity; W.E.B.

Du Bois, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison

FALL 2021
This track examines the classical works take in three modern intellectuals: W.E.B. Lineup Bois, Lorraine Hansberry and Toni Morrison. Students wrestle with illustriousness rich formulations, subtle arguments ground courageous visions of three Jetblack thinkers who continue to state with power and passion gain our turbulent times.

SPRING 2022
That course seeks to explore nobility life and teachings of Mohandas K.

Gandhi and Martin Theologiser King, Jr. Recent years enjoy seen a considerable expansion sign over the literature on both tally. The time is ripe funds a reconsideration of their estate with respect to such essential questions as the viability go with nonviolent resistance in a action of neoliberalism, ecological devastation, high-mindedness relationship between spirituality and governmental engagement, and the conflict betwixt religious traditions.

What is decency meaning and promise of their double legacy for our time? What can both figures discipline us about interreligious dialogue delighted learning? What is the affinity between the work of Statesman and King and the consequent emergence of liberation theology? What can we learn from Malcolm X’s critique of King, Butter-fingered.

R. Ambedkar’s critique of Solon and feminist critiques of both?