Cornel West Bio
CORNEL WEST
BIOGRAPHY
Antonio D. Wells
Spirituality in the Black Tradition BC SF601
March 1, 2012
Introduction
Cornel West is considered to be our modern day W.E.B. Du Bois. He is a brilliant and provocative democratic intellectual. Cornel West is a passionate, loving, and inspiring scholarly individual, that I feel as a black seminary student we can gleam from him his thoughts on social economic injustices, racism, nihilism in America, and urban youth culture. Even though I do not agree with all of his philosophical ideals, I feel Cornel West is a great contributor to the African American culture.
Cornel West is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard and the University of Paris. He has written 19 books and edited 13 books. He is best known for his classic Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and his new memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He appears frequently on the Bill Maher Show, Colbert Report, CNN and C-Span as well as on his friend, Tavis Smiley’s PBS TV Show. Cornel West can be heard weekly on the Tavis Smiley’s NPI radio program. The Tavis Smiley and Cornel West radio show is a highly acclaimed progressive program. He made his film debut in the Matrix and was the commentator with Ken Wilbur on the official trilogy released in 2004. He also has appeared in over 25 documentaries and films including Examined Life, Call and Response, Sidewalk and Stand. Last, he has made three spoken word albums including Never Forget, collaborating with Prince, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Talib Kweli, KRS-One and the late Gerald Levert. His recent spoken word interludes were featured on Terence Blanchard’s Choices which won the Grand Prix in France for the best Jazz Album of the year of 2009, The Cornel West Theory’s Second Rome and the Raheem
BIOGRAPHY
Antonio D. Wells
Spirituality in the Black Tradition BC SF601
March 1, 2012
Introduction
Cornel West is considered to be our modern day W.E.B. Du Bois. He is a brilliant and provocative democratic intellectual. Cornel West is a passionate, loving, and inspiring scholarly individual, that I feel as a black seminary student we can gleam from him his thoughts on social economic injustices, racism, nihilism in America, and urban youth culture. Even though I do not agree with all of his philosophical ideals, I feel Cornel West is a great contributor to the African American culture.
Cornel West is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard and the University of Paris. He has written 19 books and edited 13 books. He is best known for his classic Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and his new memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He appears frequently on the Bill Maher Show, Colbert Report, CNN and C-Span as well as on his friend, Tavis Smiley’s PBS TV Show. Cornel West can be heard weekly on the Tavis Smiley’s NPI radio program. The Tavis Smiley and Cornel West radio show is a highly acclaimed progressive program. He made his film debut in the Matrix and was the commentator with Ken Wilbur on the official trilogy released in 2004. He also has appeared in over 25 documentaries and films including Examined Life, Call and Response, Sidewalk and Stand. Last, he has made three spoken word albums including Never Forget, collaborating with Prince, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Talib Kweli, KRS-One and the late Gerald Levert. His recent spoken word interludes were featured on Terence Blanchard’s Choices which won the Grand Prix in France for the best Jazz Album of the year of 2009, The Cornel West Theory’s Second Rome and the Raheem
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