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Cornel West is an American philosopher, scholar, presidential candidate, and political activist. Known for his seminal work,Race Matters, he critiques societal issues and Black leadership.
Biography of Cornel West, public intellectual and theologian whose prophetic pragmatism and critique of race, democracy, and capitalism reshaped modern philosophy.
Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is a Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris.
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Cornel West was born , in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A prominent activist, author and philosopher, West received his doctoral degree in 1980 and went on to teach philosophy, religion and African American studies at several colleges and universities, including most recently at Princeton and Harvard, with his background being mainly focused on ...
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This spring, Cornel West retires as the Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, and joins the illustrious ranks of our professors emeriti.
Yahoo: ‘We ought to be pessimistic,’ Cornel West says, ‘We just don’t allow it to have the last word’
Public intellectual Cornel West delivers lecture in Santa Fe, NM about the struggles of humanity's push to rise above evil.
‘We ought to be pessimistic,’ Cornel West says, ‘We just don’t allow it to have the last word’