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| | Birth name | Cornel Ronald West | | Birth date | June 2, 1953(age 57) | | Birth place | Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA | | Era | 21st-century philosophy | | Region | Western Philosophers | | School | Pragmatism, Existentialism, Africana Philosophy, Historicism | | Main interests | Democracy, Race, Philosophy of religion, Ethics | | Notable ideas | Race Matters, Democracy Matters | | Influenced by | Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Cone, Karl Marx, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, Herman Melville, Michel Foucault, Antonio Gramsci, Richard Rorty, William James, John Dewey |
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Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an African American philosopher, author, critic, actor, and civil rights activist, as well as a prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. West currently serves as the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University, where he teaches in the Center for African American Studies and in the department of Religion. West is known for his combination of political and moral insight and criticism, and his contribution to the post-1960s civil rights movement. The bulk of his work focuses upon the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their “radical conditionedness." West draws intellectual contributions from such diverse traditions as the African American Baptist Church, pragmatism and transcendentalism.
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