Cornel West

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1977-06-08

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Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a prominent African-American scholar and public intellectual. Formerly at Harvard University, West is currently a professor of Religion at Princeton. West says his intellectual contributions draw from such diverse traditions as the African American Baptist Church, socialism, pragmatism, and transcendentalism. The grandson of a preacher, West marched as a young man in civil rights demonstrations and organized protests demanding black s

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5 total works indexed

1. The ERA5 global reanalysis

   · 2020 · cited 22,827x

2. A Simple, Positive Semi-Definite, Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent Covariance Matrix

   · 1987 · cited 14,981x

3. Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis

   · 2018 · cited 11,022x

4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

   · 2018 · cited 10,818x

5. The behaviour change wheel: A new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions

   · 2011 · cited 10,491x

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Quotes

• “In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.”
• “The Enlightenment worldview held by Du Bois is ultimately inadequate, and, in many ways, antiquated, for our time. The tragic plight and absurd predicament of Africans here and abroad requires a more profound interpretation of the human condition — one that goes beyond the false dichotomies of expert knowledge vs. mass ignorance, individual autonomy vs. dogmatic authority, and self-mastery vs. intolerant tradition.”
• “To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak. That is, it creates a vision of the world that puts into the limelight the social misery that is usually hidden or concealed by the dominant viewpoints of a society. "Intellectual" in that sense simply means those who are willing to reflect critically upon themselves as well as upon the larger society and to ascertain whether there is some possibility of amelioration and betterment.”
• “Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.”
• “The authority of science … promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies.… Cartesian epistemology and classical ideals produced forms of rationality, scientificity and objectivity that, though efficacious in the quest for truth and knowledge, prohibited the intelligibility and legitimacy of black equality…. In fact, to "think" such an idea was to be deemed irrational, barbaric or mad.”
• “I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.”

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Key facts

Born

Cornel Ronald West , ( 1953-06-02 ) June 2, 1953 (age 73) , Tulsa , Oklahoma , U.S.

Political party

Justice For All Party (since 2024) Independent (since 2023) Green (2023) , People's (2023)

Other political affiliations

Democratic Socialists of America (since 1982)

Education

Harvard University ( BA ), Princeton University ( MA , PhD )

Thesis

Ethics, Historicism and the Marxist Tradition (1980)

Doctoral advisor

Raymond Geuss , Sheldon Wolin

Era

Contemporary philosophy

Region

Western philosophy

School

Neopragmatism Existentialism Africana philosophy Historicism Christian socialism Radical democracy Baptist Christianity

Institutions

Union Theological Seminary , Yale University , Harvard University , Princeton University , Dartmouth College , University of Paris in Saint-Denis

Doctoral students

Leah Hunt-Hendrix

Main interests

Political philosophy philosophy of religion ethics race caste democracy liberation theology

Notable works

Race Matters (1993) Democracy Matters (2004)

Website

cornelwest .com

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Wikidata facts

Official website

cornelwest2024.com

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Cornel West by DW Nance 5 (cropped).jpg

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