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West, Cornel. Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir with David Ritz. New York: SmileyBooks, 2009. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom. Carlsbad, Cal.: Hay House, 2008. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism. New York: Penguin, 2004. Buy Now!
West, Cornel, and Eddie Glaude, Jr., ed. African American Religious Thought: An Anthology. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster Press, 2003. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. The Other Malcolm: "Shorty" Jarvis, His Memoir. By Malcolm "Shorty" Jarvis, with Paul D. Nichols, edited by Cornel West. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2001. Buy Now!
West, Cornel, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Century, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. The Cornel West Reader. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999. Buy Now!
West, Cornel, and Quinton Hosford Dixie, ed. The Courage to Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. The War Against Parents, with Sylvia Ann Hewlett. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. The Future of American Progressivism, with Roberto Unger. Boston: Beacon, 1998. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America, edited by Kelvin Sealey. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States, edited by Jack Salzman and Cornel West. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. The Future of the Race, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Knopf, 1996. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. Jews and Blacks: A Dialogue on Race, Religion, and Culture in America, with Michael Lerner. New York: Dutton/Plume, 1996. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin, with Michael Lerner. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1995.
West, Cornel. White Screens/Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side, by James Snead, edited by Colin MacCabe and Cornel West. New York: Routledge, 1994.
West, Cornel. Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America. New York: Routledge, 1993. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. Beyond Eurocentism and Multiculturalism. Vol. 1: Prophetic Thoughts in Post-Modern Times. Vol. 2: Prophetic Reflections: Notes on Race and Power in America. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1993.
West, Cornel. Race Matters. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. Reissued in hardcover with new introduction, 2001. Buy Now!
West, Cornel, and bell hooks. Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. Boston: South End Press, 1991. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1991. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, edited
by Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Trihn T. Minh-ha, and Cornel West. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press, 1990.
West, Cornel. The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture. Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, 1988. Buy Now!
West, Cornel, and John Rajchman, ed. Post-Analytic Philosophy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. Prophesy Deliverance!: An African American Revolutionary Christianity. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster Press, 1982. 20th anniversary reissue, 2002. Buy Now!
West, Cornel. Theology in the Americas: Detroit II Conference Papers, edited by Margaret Coakley, Caridad Guidote, and Cornel West. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1982.
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Essays, Articles, and Interviews, 1977-2003
"Unfair Tilt Toward Israel." With Michael Lerner. The Washington Post
(11 November 2003): A25
"Foreword." To Making It on Broken Promises: African American Male Scholars Confront the Culture of Higher Education, edited by Lee Jones (Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing, 2002).
"Foreword." With Sylvia Ann Hewlett. To Taking Parenting Public, edited by Nancy Rankin (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).
"The Tragicomic and the Political in Christian Faith." New preface to Prophecy Deliverance! (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster Press, 2002).
"Afterword: Philosophy and the Funk of Life." In Cornel West: A Critical Reader, edited by George Yancy (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001).
"Caring for Crib Lizards," with Sylvia Ann Hewlett. The American Prospect vol. 12 no. 1 (1-15 January 2001). http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/1/hewlett-s.html
"Democracy Matters in Race Matters." New introduction to Race Matters (Boston: Beacon Press, 2001).
"Preface." To Religion in a Secular City: Essys in Honor of Harvey Cox, edited by Arvind Sharma (Harrisburg, Penn.: Trinity Press International, 2001).
"Sketches of My Culture." Songs by Cornel West, Mike Dailey and Clifton West. Produced by Derek 'D.O.A.' Allen. (Artemis Records, 2001). http://www.cornelwest.com/
"A Grand Tradition of Struggle." English Journal 89.6 (2000): 39-44.
"Foreword." To The Soul Knows No Bars: Inmates Reflect on Life, Death, and Hope, by Drew Leder (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).
"Prophetic Alternatives: A Conversation with Cornel West." In Dispatches from the Ivory Tower, edited by Manning Marable (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).
"Afterword." To One Nation Under God? Religion and American Culture, edited by Marjorie Garber and Rebecca L Walkowitz (New York: Routledge, 1999).
"Black Theology and Human Identity." In Black Faith and Public Talk: Critical Essays on James H. Cone's Black Theology and Black Power, edited by Dwight Hopkins (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1999).
"Foreword." To One Nation under God? Religion and American Culture, edited by Marjorie Garber and Rebecca Walkowitz (New York: Routledge, 1999).
"The Moral Obligations of Living in a Democratic Society." In The Good Citizen, edited by David Batstone and Eduardo Mendieta (New York: Routledge, 1999), pp. 5-12.
"Philosophical Faith in Action." Interview of West. Harvard Review of Philosophy 7 (1999): 45-55.
"A Symposium on the Life and Work of Sterling Brown." Symposium with West, Chet Lasell, Eleanor Norton, Paulo Giddings, Sterling Stuckey, and Wahneema Lubiano. Callaloo 21.4 (1998): 1038-1074.
"Can These Two Mobilize Parents?" Interview with Stephanie Weiss. NEA Today 17.1 (1998): 58.
"Ethnicity." In Men of Color: Fashion, History, Fundamentals, edited by Lloyd Boston (New York: Artisan, 1998).
"Foreword." To Go Down, Moses: A Celebration of the African-American Spiritual, by Richard Newman (New York: Clarkson Potter/Random House, 1998), pp. 9-17. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 463-470.
"Cornel West." Interview by George Yancy. In African American Philosophers: 17 Conversations, edited by George Yancy (New York and London: Routledge, 1998), pp. 32-48. Reprinted as "On My Intellectual Vocation" in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 19-33.
"Progressive Politics and What Lies Ahead." With Roberto Unger. The Nation 267 (23 November 1998): 11-15.
"Afterword." To The House that Race Built: Black Americans, U.S. Terrain, edited by Wahneema Lubiano (New York: Pantheon, 1997).
"Audacious Democrats." In Audacious Democracy: Labor, Intellectuals, and the Social Reconstruction of America, edited by Steven Fraser and Joshua Freeman (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997).
"Black-Brown Relations: Are Alliances Possible?" Interview with Jorge Klor de Alva and Ronald Wakabayashi. Social Justice 24.2 (1997): 65-83.
"Foreword." To Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, by Mumia Abu-Jamal (Farmington, Penn.: Plough Publishing House, 1997).
"Foreword." To No Monopoly on Suffering: Blacks & Jews in Crown Heights (and Elsewhere), by Herbert D. Daughtry (Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1997).
"Foreword." To The Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia and Croatia, edited by Julie Mertus and Rada Boric (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
"The Ignoble Paradox of Western Modernity." Foreword to Spirits of the Passage, by Madeleine Burnside (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997), pp. 8-10. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 51-54.
"I'm Ofay, You're Ofay: A Conversation with Noel Ignatiev and William 'Upski' Wimsatt. Transition 73 (1997): 176-198.
"Interview with John Nichols." The Progressive 61.1 (1997): 26-29.
"Preface." To On America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago, by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman (Detroit: Gale Group, 1997).
"Walking the Tightrope: Some Personal Reflections on Blacks and Jews." In Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States, edited by Jack Salzman and Cornel West (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). Reprinted as "Tensions with Jewish Friends and Foes" in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 530-535.
"Affirmative Action in Context." In The Affirmative Action Debate, edited by George Curry (Reading, NY: Addison Wesley, 1996), pp. 31-35. Reprinted as "On Affirmative Action" in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 495-498.
"Cornel West: In Praise of the Combative Spirit." Interview with Audrey Edwards. Heart and Soul (31 January 1996): 73.
"Cornel West on Heterosexism and Transformation." Interview with Vitka Eisen and Mary Kenyatta. Harvard Educational Review 66.2 (Summer 1996): 356-367. Reprinted as "Christian Love and Heterosexism" in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 401-414.
"Cornel West Talking About Race Matters." Interview with Kuumba Ferrouillet Kazi. The Black Collegian 24.1 (1996): 24-35.
"Foreword." To The Narrow Bridge: Jewish Views on Multiculturalism, edited by Marla Brettschneider (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996).
"Foreword." To Race and Justice: Rodney King and O.J. Simpson in a Houce Divided, by Jewelle Taylor Gibbs (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996).
"How Do We Solve Our Leadership Crisis?" Discussion with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Essence 27.2 (1996): 42-44.
"The Million Man March." Dissent 43.1 (1996): 97-98.
"On Black Fathering." In Faith of Our Fathers: African-American Men Reflect on Fatherhood, edited by Andre Willis (New York: Dutton, 1996).
"Our Next Race Question: The Uneasiness between Blacks and Latinos." Dialogue with Jorge Klor de Alva and Earl Shorris. Harper's Magazine 292.4 (April 1996): 55-63. Reprinted in The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy and Society, eds. Antonia Darder and Rodolfo D. Torres (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), pp. 180-189. Reprinted as "On Black-Brown Relations" in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 499-513.
"Populism and the 1996 Elections." Tikkun 11.5 (1996): 35-37.
"A Conversation with Cornel West." Interview by Itabari Njeri. Los Angeles Times Magazine (22 October 1995): 17-20.
"Affirmative Reaction: A Conversation with Cornel West on Talent, Tradition, and the Crisis of the Black Male." Interview with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Transition 68 (1995): 173-186.
"After O.J. and the Farrakhan-led Million Man March: Is Healing Possible?" Dialogue with Michael Lerner. Tikkun 10.6 (November-December 1995): 12-21.
"American Radicalism." Interview of West by Peter Osborne. Radical Philosophy: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy no. 71 (1995): 27-38. Reprinted in A Critical Sense: Interviews with Intellectuals, ed. Peter Osborne (New York and London: Routledge, 1996).
"Foreword." To I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography, by Jackie Robinson (Hopewell, N.J.: Ecco Press, 1995). Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 536-538.
"Preface." To Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement, edited by Kimberlé Crenshaw, N. Gotanda, G. Peller, and K. Thomas (New York: New Press, 1995).
"Young Blacks, Jews Welcome Chance to Recreate Alliance." With Michael Lerner. Northern California Jewish Bulletin (26 May 1995).
"The '80s: Market Culture Run Amok." Newsweek 123 (3 January 1994): 48-49. Reprinted as "On the 1980s" in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 344-347.
"America's Three-Fold Crisis: Progressive Politics and the Issues that Confront It." Tikkun 9.2 (1994): 41-44.
"A Conversation with Cornel West." Interview by Sheldon Hackney. Humanties 15.2 (1994): 4-7.
"A Conversation with Cornel West." Interview by William Olson and Antonio Callari. Rethinking Marxism 7.4 (Winter 1994): 8-27.
"Foreword." To Sex, Lies and Stereotypes, by Julianne Malveaux (Los Angeles: Pines One Publishing, 1994). Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 539-540.
"Foreword." To The Soul of Politics, by Jim Wallis (New York: New Press/Orbis Books, 1994).
"The Left After Forty Years." Dissent 41.1 (1994): 15-16.
"NAACP: Renewing an Old Tradition." Washington Post (9 July 1994): A21.
"On Architecture?" Interview with Milton Curry and Darell Fields, published with West's 1991 lecture on architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Appendx 2 (1994). http://projects.gsd.harvard.edu/appendx/dev/issue2/west/index.htm
"Preface." To The Soul of Politics, by Jim Wallis (New York: New Press, 1994).
"Race and Social Justice in America." Liberal Education 80.3 (1994): 32-39.
"The Rift Between Blacks and Jews." By Leon Wieseltier, Thulani Davis, Midge Decter, Cornel West, Michael Lerner and Randall Kennedy. Time 143 (28 February 1994): 28-34.
"Spinning Visions." The Other Side 30.4 (1994): 12-13.
"10 Events that Shook the World: Reaganism, Racial Tension, and the Rise of the Underclass." Utne Reader no. 62 (March 1994): 67.
"West of Righteous." Interview of West by Anders Stephanson. Artforum 32.6 (February 1994): 66-71, 104, 111.
"Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism." Interview and discussion with Bill Brown, with an excerpt from West's Chicago Humanities Institute Symposium talk. Modern Philology 90.4 (May 1993): S142-166. Reprinted in Prophetic Reflections (1993), pp. 115-144.
"Black Politics, Black Leadership: An Interview with Cornel West." Christian Century 110 (11 August 1993): 774-777.
"Blacks vs. Jews: The Traps of Tribalism." Emerge 4.3 (1993): 42-44. Reprinted in Race Matters (1993), pp. 103-116.
"Conclusion: the Author Responds." In a symposium on Cornel West's The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought. Monthly Review 45.2 (June 1993): 57-60.
"The Deeper Threat to Black America." Education Week 123.1 (1993): 46.
"Foreword." To Fires in the Mirror, by Anna Deavere Smith (New York: Doubleday, 1993). Reprinted as "On Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror" in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 485-488.
"Horace Pippin's Challenge to Art Criticism." In I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin, by Judith E. Stein (Philadelphia, Penn.: Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts and Universe Publishing, 1993), pp. 44-53. Reprinted in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 55-66. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 447-455.
"How to End the Impasse (Black Intellectuals, Jewish Tensions)." New York Times 142 (1993): A17.
"Meeting Race Relations Head-On." Interview of West. USA Today (22 June 1993): A11.
"On the Responsibility of Intellectuals." Roundtable interview with West, Margaret Burnham, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., bell hooks, Glenn Loury, Eugene Rivers, and Anthony Appiah. Boston Review 18.1 (January-February 1993). http://bostonreview.net/BR18.1/responsibility.html
"Preface." To Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter, edited by Peter McLaren and Peter Leonard (New York: Routledge, 1993). Reprinted in Prophetic Thoughts in Post-Modern Times (1993), pp. 179-180.
"Response." To a symposium on West's The American Evasion of Philosophy with Robert Westbrook, Garry Brodsky, and Lorenzo Simpson. Praxis International 13.1 (April 1993): 46-49.
"Trying to Broaden the Framework: Cornel West Seeks Answers in Black and White." Interview with Dan Wasserstrom and Mark Feeney. Boston Globe (16 May 1993): 65.
"Black Anti-Semitism and the Rhetoric of Resentment." Tikkun 7.1 (1992): 15-16.
"Black Leadership and the Pitfalls of Racial Reasoning." In Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality, ed. Toni Morrison ( New York: Pantheon Books, 1992), pp. 390-401. Reprinted in Race Matters (1993), pp. 35-49.
"Black Music and Youth." New York Times (October 1992). Reprinted in Prophetic Reflections (1993), pp. 25-29.
"Domestic Social Policy After the L.A. Uprising." Roundtable interview with West, Cynthia Hamilton, Michael Katz, Mickey Kaus, Eric Mann, Lawrence Mead, and Jim Sleeper. Tikkun 7.4 (1992): 39-44, 74-75.
"A Conversation between Cornel West and Michael Lerner." In Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews, by Jack Salzman et al. (New York: Jewish Museum, 1992).
"Equality and Identity." American Prospect 9 (1992): 119-122. Reprinted in Race Matters (1993), pp. 93-99.
"Identity: A Matter of Life and Death." October 61 (1992): 20-23. Reprinted in Prophetic Reflections (1993), pp. 163-168.
"Introduction." To Say Amen, Brother: Old-Time Negro Preaching: A Study in American Frustration, by William H. Pipes (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1992). Reprinted in Prophetic Reflections (1993), pp. 31-36.
"Learning to Talk of Race." New York Times Magazine 141 (2 August 1992): 24-26. Reprinted in Reading Rodney King: Reading Urban Uprising, ed. Robert Gooding-Williams (New York: Routledge, 1993), pp. 255-260. Reprinted in Race Matters (1993), pp. 3-13. Reprinted in I Am Because We Are, edited by Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara) and Jonathan Scott Lee (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995), pp. 62-67.
"The Legacy of Raymond Williams." Social Text 30.3 (1992): 6-8. Reprinted in Prophetic Thoughts in Post-Modern Times (1993), pp. 171-174.
"Malcolm X and Black Rage." In Malcolm X in Our Own Image, edited by Joe Wood (New York: St. Martin's, 1992). Reprinted in Race Matters (1993), pp. 135-151.
"Philosophy and the Urban Underclass." In The Underclass Question, edited by Bill Lawson (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992). Reprinted in Prophetic Thoughts in Post-Modern Times (1993), pp. 143-158.
"Blues in the 90's: Toward Twilight or a New Dawn? (will the blues and pop music become one?)." The New York Times 141 (1991): H26(N), H26(L), col 1.
"Charlie Parker Didn't Give a Damn." Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell. New Perspectives Quarterly 8.3 (Summer 1991): 60-63. Reprinted in Prophetic Reflections (1993), pp. 9-17.
"Decentering Europe: a Memorial Lecture for James Snead, Introduced by Colin MacCabe (James Snead Memorial Issue) by Cornel West and Colin MacCabe." Critical Quarterly 33.1 (March 1991): 1-19. Reprinted in Prophetic Thoughts in Post-Modern Times (1993), pp. 119-142.
"Diverse New World." Democratic Left 19.4 (July 1991). Reprinted in Debating PC: The Controversy over Political Correctness on College Campuses, ed. Paul Berman (New York: Laurel/Dell, 1992). Reprinted in Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers, eds. Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon (Boston: Bedford Books, 1997), pp. 557-562.
"Doubting Thomas." Roundtable interview with Kimberlé Crenshaw, Harold Cruse, Peter Gabel, Catherine MacKinnon, and Gary Peller. Tikkun 6.5 (1991): 23-30.
"Nihilism in Black America: A Danger that Corrodes from Within." Dissent 38.2 (1991): 221-226. Reprinted in Race Matters (1993), pp. 17-31.
"The Political Aftermath of the Gulf War." Roundtable interview with West, Todd Gitlin, Sheila Tobias, Letty Cottin, and Paul Wellstone. Tikkun 6.3 (1991): 28-32-94-95.
"The Postmodern Crisis of Black Intellectuals." In Cultural Studies, eds. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler (London and New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 689-696. Reprinted in Prophetic Thoughts in Post-Modern Times (1993), pp. 87-101.
"Postmodern Culture." In The Columbia History of the American Novel, ed. Emory Elliot (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991).
"Response." To Robert Gooding-Williams and Robert Corrington. American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience 90.3 (1991): 26-28.
"The Struggle for America's Soul." Review of Robert Bellah et al., The Good Society. New York Times Book Review (15 September 1991): 13. Reprinted as "The Struggle for America's Soul" in Prophetic Reflections (1993), pp. 199-202.
"Subversive Anger, Subversive Joy." Interview of West by Bill Moyers. Cross Currents 41.4 (December 1991): 538-546. Reprinted in Prophetic Reflections (1993), pp. 103-112. Reprinted as "A World of Ideas" in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 294-301.
"Theory, Pragmatism, and Politics." In Consequences of Theory: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1987-88, eds. Jonathan Arac and Barbara Johnson (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991). Reprinted in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 89-106. Reprinted in Pragmatism: From Progressivism to Postmodernism, eds. Robert Hollinger and David Depew (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995), pp. 314-325.
"We Socialists." Crossroads (July-August 1991). Reprinted in Prophetic Reflections (1993), pp. 239-244.
"Leaders to Meet an Intellectual Challenge." The Progressive 54.11 (1990): 37.
"The Limits of Neopragmatism." Southern California Law Review 63.1 (1990): 1747-1762. Reprinted in Pragmatism in Law and Society, eds. Michael Brint and William Weaver (Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1991). Reprinted in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 135-142. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 183-187.
"Michael Harrington, Socialist." Review of Michael Harrington, Socialism, Past and Future. The Nation 250 (8 January 1990): 59-61. Reprinted as "Michael Harrington, Socialist" in Prophetic Thoughts in Post-Modern Times (1993), pp. 181-188. Reprinted as "Michael Harrington, Democratic Socialist" in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 348-353. Reprinted in The Best of The Nation: Selections From the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture, eds. Victor Navasky and Katrina Vanden Heuvel (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2000).
"The New Cultural Politics of Difference." October 53 (1990): 93-109. Also published in Out There, Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, edited by Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Trihn T. Minh-ha, and Cornel West (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990), pp. 19-36. Reprinted in The Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Simon During (London and New York: Routledge, 1993), pp.203-220. Reprinted in Race, Identity and Representation in Education, eds. McCarthy Cameron and Warren Crichlow (London and New York: Routledge, 1993), pp.11-23. Reprinted in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 3-32. Reprinted in The Postmodern Turn, ed. Steven Seidman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 65-81. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 119-139.
"The Religious Foundations of the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr." In We Shall Overcome: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Black Freedom Struggle, edited by Peter Albert and Ronald Hoffman (New York: Pantheon, 1990). Reprinted as "Prophetic Christian as Organic Intellectual: Martin Luther King, Jr." in The Cornel West Reader (1993), pp. 425-434.
"The Role of Law in Progressive Politics." In The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique, rev. edition, ed. David Kairys (New York: Pantheon, 1990), pp. 468-478. Reprinted in the 3rd edition (New York: Basic Books, 1998), pp. 708-719. Reprinted in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 251-270. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 269-277.
"Review of Michael Harrington, Socialism: Past and Future." The Nation 250 (1990): 59.
"Symposium on the Renaissance of Pragmatism in American Legal Thought." With Hilary Putnam and Richard Rorty. Southern California Law Review 63.6 (1990): 1911-1928.
"Why I Write for Tikkun." Tikkun 5.5 (September 1990): 59-60.
"Black-Jewish Dialogue: Beyond Rootless Universalism and Ethnic Chauvinism." Tikkun 4.4 (July 1989): 95-97.
"Critical Reflections on Art." Artforum 28 (November 1989): 120-121. Reprinted as "Critical Reflections on Art" in Prophetic Reflections (1993), pp. 19-24. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 443-446.
"Hegel, Hermeneutics, Politics: A Reply to Charles Taylor." Cardozo Law Review 10.5-6 (1989): 871-875. Reprinted in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 227-234.
"Imperatives of Seminary Reform: The Love Ethic in a Pedagogic Mode." Christianity and Crisis 49.5-6 (3 April 1989): 101-104.
"Present Socio-Political-Economic Movements for Change." In We Are One Voice: Black Theology in the USA and South Africa, edited by Simon Maimela and Dwight Hopkins (Braamfontein, South Africa: Skotaville, 1989). Reprinted in Prophetic Reflections (1993), pp. 183-197.
"Review of Ethics after Babel, by Jeffrey Stout." Theology Today 46.1 (April 1989): 66-68. Reprinted in Prophetic Thoughts in Post-Modern Times (1993), pp. 175-178.
"CLS and a Liberal Critic." Yale Law Journal 97.5 (1988): 757-771. Reprinted in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 207-226.
"The Crisis of Black Leadership." Z Magazine 1.2 (1988): 22-25. Reprinted in Race Matters (1993), pp. 53-70.
"Marxist Theory and the Specificity of Afro-American Oppression." In Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, eds. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1988), pp. 17-24.
"Prophetic Theology." In The Kairos Covenant: Standing with South African Christians, ed. Willis H. Logan (New York: Friendship Press, 1988). Reprinted in Prophetic Reflections (1993), pp. 223-233.
"Reassessing the Critical Legal Studies Movement." Loyola Law Review 34 (1988): 265-275. Reprinted in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 195-206.
"Review of Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition." Monthly Review 40 (1988): 51-56. Reprinted as "Black Radicalism and the Marxist Tradition" in Prophetic Reflections (1993), pp. 169-175.
"Between Dewey and Gramsci: Unger's Emancipatory Experimentalism." Northwestern University Law Review 81.4 (1987): 941-951.
"Black Culture and Postmodernism." In Remaking History, eds. Barbara Kruger and Phil Mariani (New York: Norton, 1987; Seattle, Wash.: Bay Press, 1989), pp. 87-96. Reprinted in A Postmodern Reader, eds. Joseph Natoli and Linda Hutcheon (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993), pp. 390-397.
"Demystifying the New Black Conservatism." Praxis International 7.2 (1987): 143-151. Reprinted in Race Matters (1993), pp. 73-90.
"Lionel Trilling: Neo-Conservative Godfather." New Politics 1:233. 1987 ??
"Metaphysics." In The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mercea Eliade (New York: Macmillan, 1987), vol. 9, pp. 485-487.
"Minority Discourse and Canon Formation." Yale Journal of Criticism 1.1 (Fall 1987): 193-201. Reprinted as "Black Critics and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation" in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 33-43. Reprinted as "Minority Discourse and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation" in Contemporary Literary Criticism: Literary and Cultural Studies, 4th edition, eds. Robert Davis and Ronald Schleifer (New York: Longmans, 1998), pp. 50-56.
"The Political Intellectual." Interview with Anders Stephanson. Flash Art (1987). Reprinted in Universal Abandon? The Politics of Postmodernism, ed. Andrew Ross (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), pp. 268-286. Reprinted in Prophetic Reflections (1993), pp. 81-102. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 278-293.
"Race and Social Theory: Towards a Genealogical Materialist Analysis." In The Year Left 2, by Mike Davis et al. (London: Verso, 1987). Reprinted in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 251-270. Reprinted as "Race and Social Theory" in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 251-263.
"Review of Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, eds., Rethinking Marxism: Struggles in Marxist Theory." Monthly Review 38.2 (1987): 52-57. Reprinted as "Rethinking Marxism" in Prophetic Reflections (1993), pp. 177-182.
"Critical Theory and Christian Faith." The Witness 69 (1986). Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 112-123.
"Dispensing with Metaphysics in Religious Thought." Religion and Intellectual Life 3.3 (Spring 1986): 53-56. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 267-270.
"Foreword." To The Ideological Weapons of Death, by Franz Hinkelammert (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1986), pp. v-vii. Reprinted as "On Franz Hinkelammert's The Ideological Weapons of Death" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 203-206. Reprinted as the second part of "On Liberation Theology: Segundo and Hinkelammert" in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 398-400.
"Left Strategies: A View from Afro-America." Socialist Review 86 (March-April 1986):41-49. Reprinted as "Left Strategies Today" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 137-143.
"Neo-Aristotelianism, Liberalism, and Socialism: A Christian Perspective." In Christianity and Capitalism: Perspectives on Religion, Liberalism and the Economy, ed. Bruse Grelle (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1986), pp. 79-89. Reprinted as "Alasdair MacIntyre, Liberalism, and Socialism: A Christian Perspective" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 124-136.
"The New Populism: A Black Socialist Christian Critique." In The New Populism: The Politics of Empowerment, eds. Harry Boyte and Frank Reissman (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986). Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 30-34.
"Postmodernity and Afro-America." Art Papers 10 (January-February 1986). Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 168-170.
"Review of Nicholas Rescher, Pascal's Wager: A Study of Practical Reasoning in Philosophical Theology." Theology Today 43 (July 1986): 302-303. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 234-235.
"Review of Leszek Kolakowski, Religion." Old Westbury Review 2 (Fall 1986): 147-153. Reprinted as "On Leszek Kolakowski's Religion" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 216-221. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 387-392.
"Review of Louis Dupré, Marx's Social Critique of Culture." Journal of Religion 66.1 (January 1986): 85-86. Reprinted as "Louis Dupré's Marx's Social Critique of Culture" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 166-167.
"Unmasking the Black Conservatives." The Christian Century 103 (16 July 1986): 644-648. Reprinted as "Assessing Black Neoconservativism" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 55-63.
"Afterword." To Post-Analytic Philosophy, eds. John Rajchman and Cornel West (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), pp. 259-275.
"Anti-Imperialist Struggle and Black Americans." LUCHA (June 1985). Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 74-78.
"The British and the Rational." With Anders Stephanson. Review of Perry Anderson, In the Tracks of Historical Materialism. Socialist Review 84 (1985): 123-129.
"Contemporary Afro-American Social Thought." Over Here: An American Studies Journal 5.2 (Winter 1985): 11-16. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 50-54.
"The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual." Cultural Critique 1.1 (1985): 109-124. Reprinted in Critical Quarterly 29.4 (Winter 1987): 39-52. Reprinted in Breaking Bread (1991), pp. 131-146. Reprinted in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 67-85. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 302-315.
"The Historicist Turn in Philosophy of Religion." In Knowing Religiously, ed. Leroy S. Rouner (Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame University Press, 1985). Reprinted in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 119-134, 298-299. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 360-371.
"Not-Always-Perfidious Albion." Christianity and Crisis 45.1-2 (4 February 1985): 5-6. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 159-160.
"On Visiting South Africa." Christianity and Crisis 45.17 (28 October 1985): 412-414. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 109-111.
"The Politics of American Neo-Pragmatism." In Post-Analytic Philosophy, edited by John Rajchman and Cornel West (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), pp. 259-275.
"Realign the Left." Democratic Left 13.1 (1985): 4-5.
"Review of Elisabeth Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins." Religious Studies Review 11.1 (January 1985): 1-4. Reprinted as "On Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's In Memory of Her" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 250-256. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 380-386.
"Review of Mark Naison, Communists in Harlem During the Depression." Monthly Review 37.7 (December 1985): 48-51. Reprinted as "On Mark Naison's Communists in Harlem During the Depression" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 90-93.
"Review of Sharon Welch, Communities of Resistance and Solidarity." Christianity and Crisis 45 (14 October 1985): 400-402. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 207-211.
"Sex and Suicide." Christianity and Crisis 45.10 (10 June 1985): 222-223. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 155-156. Reprinted in Black Sacred Music 6.1 (1992): 250-252.
"Toward a Socialist Theory of Racism." Pamphlet. New York: Institute for Democratic Socialism, 1985. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 97-108.
"Violence in America." Christianity and Crisis 45 (1 April 1985): 104-105. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 157-158.
"The Black Church and Socialist Politics." Third World Socialist 1.2 (Summer 1984): 16-19. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 67-73.
"Black Politics Will Never Be the Same." Christianity and Crisis 44.13 (13 August 1984): 302-305.
"A Brief History of Revisionist History." Review article. Christianity and Crisis 44 (5 March 1984): 67.
"Christian Theological Mediocrity." Christianity and Crisis 44.19 (26 November 1984): 439-440. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 195-196.
"Class and State Remain." in symposium on Harvey Cox, Religion in the Secular City. Christianity and Crisis 44 (20 February 1984): 43-44. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 212-215.
"Obituary." For Marvin Gaye. Christianity and Crisis 44 (11 June 1984): 220-221. Reprinted as "In Memory of Marvin Gaye" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 174-176. Reprinted in Black Sacred Music 6.1 (1992): 224-226. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 471-473.
"On Black-Jewish Relations." Christianity and Crisis 44.7 (30 April 1984): 149-150. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 171-173.
"On Christian Intellectuals." Christianity and Crisis 44 (19 March 1984): 77-78. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 271-272.
"The Paradox of the Afro-American Rebellion." In The 60s without Apology, ed. Sohnya Sayres (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), pp. 44-58. Reprinted in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 271-291.
"The Prophetic Tradition in Afro-America." The Drew Gateway 54.2-3 (Winter 1984--Spring 1985). Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 38-49. Reprinted in Let Justice Roll: Prophetic Challenges in Religion, Politics, and Society, ed. Neal Riemer (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999), pp. 89-100.
"Race and Class in Afro-American History." Le Monde Diplomatique (October 1984). Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 94-96.
"Reconstructing the American Left: The Challenge of Jesse Jackson." Social Text 11 (1984): 3-19.
"Red/Green Smokescreen." Democratic Left 12.2 (1984): 15.
"Religion and the Left: An Introduction." Monthly Review 36.3 (July-August 1984): 9-19. Reprinted as "Religion and the Left" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 13-21. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 372-379.
"Religion, Politics, Language." Christianity and Crisis 44.16 (15 October 1984): 366-367. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 22-24.
"Review of James Bentley, Between Marx and Christ." Commonweal 111 (24 February 1984): 24.
"Review of Harvey Cox, Religion in the Secular City." Christianity and Crisis 44.2 (20 February 1984). Reprinted as "On Harvey Cox's Religion in the Secular City" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 212-215.
"Review of Richard W. Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears, eds., The Culture of Consumption." Christianity and Crisis 44.3 (5 March 1984): 66-70. Reprinted as "On Fox and Lears's The Culture of Consumption" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 188-192.
"Review of Manning Marable, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America." The Guardian (27 June 1984). Reprinted as "On Manning Marable's How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 64-66.
"Review of Gibson Winter, 'Hope for the Earth'." Religion and Intellectual Life 1.1 (Spring 1984). Reprinted as "Winter in the West" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 246-249. Reprinted as "On Gibson Winter's Ecological Ecumenism" in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 421-424.
"Review of George Stroup, The Promise of Narrative Theology." Union Seminary Quarterly Review 39.1-2 (1984): 141-146. Reprinted as "George Stroup's The Promise of Narrative Theology" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 240-245.
"Subversive Joy and Revolutionary Patience in Black Christianity." Le Monde Diplomatique (October 1984). Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 161-165. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 435-439.
"Where Christian Rhetoric about Love and Moral Arguments about Rights Fall Short--A Systemic Understanding of Torture." Pamphlet. Philadelphia: American Christians for the Abolition of Torture, 1984.
"Whither Liberation Theology?" Review of Juan Luis Segundo, Faith and Ideologies. Commonweal 111 (27 January 1984): 53-57. Reprinted as "On Juan Luis Segundo's Faith and Ideologies" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 197-202. Reprinted as the first part of "On Liberation Theology: Segundo and Hinkelammert" in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 393-398.
"Winter in Afro-America." Christianity and Crisis 43 (23 January 1984): 516-517. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 35-37.
"Winter in the West." Religion and Intellectual Life 1.3 (1984): 86-91. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 246-249. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 421-424.
"The Black Church and Socialist Politics." Third World Socialists 1.2 (1983): 16-19. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 67-73.
"Black Theology of Liberation as Critique of Capitalist Civilization." Journal of the Interdenominational Theological Center 10.2 (1983): 67-83.
"Karl Who?" Review of Nicholas Lash, A Matter of Hope. Christianity and Crisis 43 (18 April 1983): 148-149. Reprinted as "On Nicholas Lash's A Matter of Hope" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 222-225.
"Martin Luther as Prophet." Christianity and Crisis 43 (28 November 1983): 444-445. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 257-259.
"Philosophy, Politics and Power: An Afro-American Perspective." In Philosophy Born of Struggle, ed. Leonard Harris (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1983), pp. 51-59.
"Review of Michael Harrington, The Politics at God's Funeral." Christianity and Crisis 43 (12 December 1983): 484-486. Reprinted as "On Michael Harrington's The Politics at God's Funeral" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 25-29.
"Fredric Jameson's Marxist Hermeneutics." Boundary 2: A Journal of Postmodern Literature 11.1-2 (Fall-Winter 1982-83): 177-200. Revised version published as "Ethics and Action in Fredric Jameson's Marxist Hermeneutics" in Postmodernism and Politics, ed. Jonathan Arac (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986), pp. 123-144. Reprinted in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 165-191, 302-306. Reprinted as "Fredric Jameson's American Marxism" in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 231-250.
"Lukács: A Reassessment." The Minnesota Review 19 (Fall 1982): 86-102. Reprinted in Keeping Faith (1993), pp. 143-164.
"On Afro-American Popular Music: From Bebop to Rap." Semiotexte (1982). Expanded version in Le Monde Diplomatique (November 1983). Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 177-187. Reprinted in Black Sacred Music 6.1 (1992): 282-294. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 474-484.
"Review of Stanley Aronowitz, The Crisis in Historical Materialism." The Village Voice (6 January 1982). Reprinted as "On Stanley Aronowitz's The Crisis in Historical Materialism" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 82-83.
"Review of Hans Frei, The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative." Notre Dame English Journal 14.2 (Spring 1982): 151-154. Reprinted as "On Hans Frei's The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 236-239.
"Sing a Song." Black student journal, Williams College, 1982. Reprinted as "Epilogue: Sing a Song" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 281-294. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 34-47.
"The Black Struggle, the Black Church and the U.S. Progressive Movement." In Seeds of a People's Church: Challenge and Promise from the Underside of History, eds. Linda Unger and Kathleen Schultz (Detroit: Seeds of a People's Church, 1981).
"Nietzsche's Prefiguration of Postmodern American Philosophy." Boundary 2 9.3 (Spring 1981): 241-269. Reprinted in Early Postmodernism, ed. Paul A Bové (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995), pp. 265-289. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 189-210.
"The North American Blacks." In The Challenge of Basic Christian Communities, edited by Sergio Torres and John Eagelson (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1981), pp. 255-257.
"Review of Jon Gunnemann, The Moral Meaning of Revolution." Journal of Religion 61.2 (April 1981): 218-219. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 84-85.
"Review of Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature." Union Seminary Quarterly Review 37.1-2 (Fall 1981-Winter 1982): 179-185.
"Black Theology and Socialist Thought." The Witness 63.4 (1980): 16-19.
"A Philosophical View of Easter." Dialog: A Journal of Theology 19.1 (Winter 1980): 21-24. Reprinted in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 260-266. Reprinted in The Cornel West Reader (1999), pp. 415-420.
"Review of Paul Holmer, The Grammer of Faith." Union Seminary Quarterly Review 35.3-4 (Spring-Summer 1980): 279-285. Reprinted as "On Paul Holmer's The Grammer of Faith" in Prophetic Fragments (1988), pp. 226-233.
"Review of Arthur Munk, A Synoptic Approach to the Riddle of Existence, and Robert M. Brown, Theology in a New Key." Religious Studies Review 6.2 (1980): 129, 132-133.
"Set the Record Straight." Commonweal 107 (21 November 1980): 656.
"Socialism, Religion and the Black Struggle." Religious Socialism 4.4 (1980): 5-8.
"Black Theology and Marxist Thought." In Black Theology: A Documentary History 1966-1979, eds. Gayraud Wilmore and James Cone (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Press, 1979).
"Introduction" and "Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics and the Myth of the Given." Union Seminary Quarterly Review 34.2 (1979): 67-70, 71-84.
"Review of Eulalio Baltazar, God Within Process." Religious Studies Review 5.1 (1979): 69.
"Socialism and the Black Church." New York Circus 3.5 (1979): 5-8.
"Philosophy and the Afro-American Experience." The Philosophical Forum 9.2-3 (Winter-Spring 1977-78): 117-148.
works about West
Allen, Anita L. "Review of West, Keeping Faith." Ethics 105 (1995): 954-955.
Amin, Samir. "Historical and Ethical Materialism." In a symposium on West's The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought. Monthly Review 45.2 (June 1993): 44-56.
Anderson, Jervis. "The Public Intellectual." The New Yorker 69.46 (17 January 1994): 39-48.
Anderson, Victor. "The Wrestle of Christ and Culture in Pragmatic Public Theology." American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 19.2 (May 1998): 135-150.
Appiah, Kwame Anthony. "Review of West, The American Evasion of Philosophy." The Nation 250.14 (1990): 496-498.
Bancroft, Nancy. "Review of West, The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought." The Journal of Religion 72 (October 1992): 618-619.
Banks, William M. Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.
Beardslee, William A. "Cornel West's Postmodern Theology." In Varieties of Postmodern Theology, eds. David Ray Griffin, William Beardslee, and Joe Holland (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1995).
Bolden, Tonya. "Review of hooks and West, Breaking Bread." Black Enterprise 22 (1992): 23.
Bolden, Tonya. "Review of West, Race Matters." Black Enterprise 23 (1993): 14.
Booth, Newell S. "Review of West, Prophesy Deliverance!" Journal of the American Academy of Religion 52 (June 1984): 385.
Bowie, Guillermo. "Ethics and Indigenization of Marxist Thought." In a symposium on West's The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought. Monthly Review 45.2 (June 1993): 37-43.
Boynton, Robert S. "The New Intellectuals." Atlantic Monthly 275.3 (March 1995): 53-69.
Brick, Howard. "Review of West, The American Evasion of Philosophy." Journal of American History 79 (1992): 687.
Brodsky, Garry M. Title unknown. Contribution to symposium on West's The American Evasion of Philosophy. Praxis International 13.1 (April 1993).
Byerman, Keith. "Review of West, Race Matters." College Literature 22 (June 1995): 134-142.
Carnegie, M. D. "Review of West, Race Matters." The American Spectator 26 (1993): 79.
Carton, Evan. "Review of West, The American Evasion of Philosophy." Raritan: A Quarterly Review 11 (September 1991): 115-127.
Cole, Anita L. "Review of West, Race Matters." Library Journal 118 (1993): 97.
Coleman, William E. ,. Jr. "Review of West, Race Matters." ETC: A Review of General Semantics 51 (March 1994): 103-104.
Collins, Patricia Hill. "Review of hooks and West, Breaking Bread." Signs 20.1 (1994): 176-179.
Cooksey, T. L. "Review of West, Keeping Faith." Library Journal 118 (1993): 91.
Cose, Ellis. "A Prophet with Attitude: Cornel West Talks of Race, Love, and Rage." Review of Race Matters. Newsweek 121 (June 1993): 71.
Cotkin, George. "Review of West, The American Evasion of Philosophy." Reviews in American History 18 (December 1990): 519-524.
Cowan, Rosemary. Cornel West: The Politics of Redemption. Cambridge, England: Polity, 2003.
Delandy, Paul. "Review of West, Race Matters." New York Times Book Review (1993): 11, col 1.
Denzin, N. K. "Prophetic Pragmatism and the Postmodern: A Comment on Maines." Symbolic Interaction 19.4 (1996): 341-355.
Donovan, Rickard. "Cornel West's New Pragmatism." Cross Currents 41.1 (March 1991): 98-106.
Dumain, Ralph. "Cornel West's Evasion of Philosophy, or, Richard Wright's Revenge." AAH Examiner [The Newsletter of African Amercians for Humanism] 6.1 (Spring 1996): 3-6.
Dyson, Michael Eric. "Review of West, Prophetic Fragments." Theology Today 45.4 (January 1989): 451-453.
Fisk, Milton. "Post-analytic philosophy." Review of Rajchman and West, eds., Post-Analytic Philosophy. Clio 15 (June 1986): 435-438.
Foster, J. B. "Introduction." To a symposium on West's The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought. Monthly Review 45.2 (June 1993): 8-15.
Garcia, Ismael. "Review of West, Prophesy Deliverance!" Journal of Religion 65 (October 1985): 558-559.
Garrison, Jim. "The Crossroads of Poetry and Prophecy." Philosophy of Education (1997).
Garrison, Jim. "Deweyan Prophetic Pragmatism, Poetry, and the Education of Eros." American Journal of Education 103.4 (1995): 406-431.
Gates, David. "Review of West, Race Matters." Newsweek 121 (1993): 67.
Gilroy, Paul. "Review of West, Keeping Faith." Artforum 32 (December 1993): 75.
Goldberg, David Theo. "Whither West? The Making of a Public Intellectual." Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 16.1 (1994): 1-13. Reprinted in Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a Performative Practice, eds. Henry A. Giroux and Patrick Shannon (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 33-47. Reprinted in Racial Subjects: Writings on Race in America, by David Goldberg (New York: Routledge, 1997), pp. 123-126.
Goodheart, Eugene. "Review of West, Race Matters." Clio 23 (1993): 93.
Gooding-Williams, Robert. "Evading Narrative Myth, Evading Prophetic Pragmatism: Cornel West's The American Evasion of Philosophy." The Massachusetts Review 32.4 (Winter 1991-92): 517-542.
Gooding-Williams, Robert. "Review of West, Keeping Faith." Philosophical Review 104.4 (October 1995): 601-603.
Gordon, Lewis. "Black Intellectuals and Academic Activism: Cornel West's 'Dilemmas of the Black Intellectual'." In Her Majesty's Other Children, by Lewis Gordon (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997).
Gordon, Lewis. " Review of West, Race Matters." Political Affairs 73.2 (February 1994): 34-37.
Griffin, David Ray. "Liberation Theology and Postmodern Philosophy: A Response to Cornel West." In Varieties of Postmodern Theology, eds. David Ray Griffin, William Beardslee, and Joe Holland (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1995).
Hacker, Andrew. "Review of West, Race Matters." New York Review of Books 40 (1993): 24.
Hagopian, Kevin. "Black Cinema Studies: Shadows and Acts." Review of White Screens, Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side, by James Snead. Journal of Communication 45.3 (Summer 1995): 177-185.
Hart, William D. "Cornel West: Between Rorty's Rock and Hauerwas's Hard Place." American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 19.2 (1998): 151-172.
Hentoff, Nat. "Review of West, Race Matters." Business and Society Review 80 (1993): 68-69.
Holden, Stephen. "The Darker Side of Black." Review of White Screens, Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side, by James Snead. New York Times 144 (1995): B4.
Holyoke, T. C. "Review of West et al, eds., Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures." The Antioch Review 49 (1991): 304.
Hulsether, Mark D. "Review of West, The American Evasion of Philosophy." Christianity and Crisis 51 (16 December 1991): 394-397.
Iannone, Carol. "Review of West, Race Matters." National Review 45 (1993): 60.
Jacoby, Russell. "Review of West, The American Evasion of Philosophy." Dissent 37 (Summer 1990): 403-405.
Jaggar, Alison M. "Moral Justification, Philosophy, and Critical Theory." In a symposium on West's The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought. Monthly Review 45.2 (June 1993): 17-27.
James, Joy. Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Intellectual Leaders and American Intellectuals. New York: Routledge, 1997.
Jelks, Randal. "Review of West, Race Matters." The Christian Century 110 (1993): 684.
Jelks, Randal. "Review of Lerner and West, Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin." Publishers Weekly 242 (1995): 70.
Jelks, Randal. "Review of Lerner and West, Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin." Wilson Quarterly 19 (1995): 92.
Johnson, Clarence Sholé. "Cornel West as Existentialist and Pragmatist." In Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existentialist Philosophy, ed. Lewis Gordon (New York: Routledge, 1996).
Johnson, Clarence Sholé. Cornel West and Philosophy. New York and London: Routledge 2002.
Kakutani, Michiko. "Review of West, Race Matters." New York Times 142 (1993): B2(N), C17(L), col 1.
Kakutani, Michiko. "Review of West, Keeping Faith." Publishers Weekly 240 (1993): 55.
Kazi, Kuumba Ferrouillet. "Cornel West: Talking about Race Matters." The Black Collegian 24.1 (1993): 24-35.
King, Richard H. "Review of West, Keeping Faith." Journal of American Studies 29 (April 1995): 126-127.
Kulman, Linda. "Review of West, Race Matters." New Leader 76 (1993): 18.
Lefkowitz, Mary. "Review of Lerner and West, Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin." Times Literary Supplement (1995): 15.
Little, Danielle K. "Does Truth Depend on the Audience to Whom One is Speaking?" QBR: The Black Book Review 6 (November-December 1999): 18.
Lott, Eric. "Cornel West in the Hour of Chaos: Culture and Politics in Race Matters." Social Text 40 (Fall 1994): 39-50.
Loury, Glenn. "Review of West, Race Matters." The Wilson Quarterly 17 (Summer 1993): 80-83. Reprinted in One by One from the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America (New York: Free Press, 1995).
Lyne, John. "Review of West, The American Evasion of Philosophy." Quarterly Journal of Speech 76 (May 1990): 192-208.
McPhail, Mark Lawrence. "Review of West, Race Matters." Quarterly Journal of Speech 80 (August 1994): 343-357.
Messer, Donald E. "Review of West, Keeping Faith." Christian Century 111 (1994): 864.
Mészáros, Istvántól. "Marxism - Politics - Morality." In a symposium on West's The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought. Monthly Review 45.2 (June 1993): 28-36.
Miller, D. W. "In the Race for the White House, does Race Matter? Why Harvard's Cornel West Couldn't Save Bill Bradley's Presidential Campaign." Chronicle of Higher Education 46.29 (24 March 2000): A21-22.
Milligan, Jeffrey Ayala. "Teaching at the Crossroads of Faith and School: The Teacher as Prophetic Pragmatist." Philosophy of Education (1997).
Minow, Martha. "Cornel West Delivers." Reconstruction 1.2 (1990).
Morris, Walter S. "West Maligns Black Conservatives." Christian Century 103.29 (September 1986): 863-864.
Moses, Stanley T. "Review of West, Beyond Eurocentism and Multiculturalism." Utne Reader (1994): 120.
Painter, Nell Irwin. "Review of Gates and West, The Future of the Race." The Nation 262.18 (6 May 1996): 38-40.
Piephl, Mel. "Review of West, Prophetic Fragments." Library Journal 113 (1988): 70.
Pinsker, Sanford. "What's Love, or Candor, Got to Do with It?" Review of West, Race Matters. Virginia Quarterly Review 70 (December 1994): 174-181.
Pittman, John. "Postphilosophy, Politics, and Race." In Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader, ed. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1977).
Puddington, Arch. "Review of West, Race Matters." Commentary 96 (August 1993): 624.
Quin, Eli. "A Battle Plan to Vanquish the Demons of US Racism." The Philadelphia Inquirer (9 May 1993): N2.
Quirk, Michael J. "Review of West, Keeping Faith." Cross Current 44.4 (December 1994): 535-539.
Reed, Adolf. "What are the Drums Saying Booker? The Current Crisis of the Black Intellectual." The Village Voice 40.15 (11 April 1995): 31-36.
Roberts, Tyler T. "Michael Walzer and the Critical Connections." Journal of Religious Ethics 22.2 (September 1994): 333-353, 401-405.
Romano, Carlin. "Philosopher Express." The Philadelphia Inquirer (23 June 1993): F1, F8.
Rorty, Richard. "The Philosopher and the Prophet." Transition 52 (1991): 70-78.
Sanders, Mark A. "Responding to Contemporary Crisis." Review of West, Race Matters. Callaloo 17 (Spring 1994).
Simpson, Lorenzo. "Evading Theory and Tragedy? Reading Cornel West." Praxis International 13.1 (April 1993): 32-45.
Simpson, Lorenzo. "On the Historicist Turn in American Philosophy: A Reply to West." American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience 91.1 (October 1991): 28-31.
Spelman, Elizabeth. "Theodicy, Tragedy and Prophecy: Comments on Cornel West's The American Evasion of Philosophy." American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience 91.3 (October 1991): 19-23.
Squires, Judith. "Review of West, Keeping Faith." Political Studies 42 (1994): 777.
Steigerwald, David. "Cornel West and the Predicament of Black Intellectuals." Civic Arts Review 8.3-4 (Summer-Fall 1995).
Stein, Arlene. "Review of West et al, eds., Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures." Journal of Communication 41 (1991): 150.
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Contents
George Yancy, "Cornel West: The Vanguard of Existential and Democratic Hope,"
pp. 1-16
Part I, Pragmatism
Hilary W. Putnam, "Pragmatism Resurgent: A Reading of The American Evasion
of Philosophy," pp. 19-37
Lewis R. Gordon, "The Unacknowledged Fourth Tradition: An Essay on Nihilism,
Decadence, and the Black Intellectual Tradition in the Existential Pragmatic Thought
of Cornel West," pp. 38-58
Clevis Headley, "Cornel West on Prophesy, Pragmatism, and Philosophy: A Critical
Evaluation of Prophetic Pragmatism," pp. 59-82
Eduardo Mendieta, "Which pragmatism? Whose America?" pp. 83-102
Part II, Philosophy of religion
James H. Cone, "'Let Suffering Speak:' The Vocation of a Black Intellectual,"
pp. 105-114
George Yancy, "Religion and the Mirror of God: Historicism, Truth, and Religious
Pluralism," pp. 115-138
Victor Anderson, "Is Cornel West also Among the Theologians? The Shadow of
the Divine in the Religious Thought of Cornel West," pp. 139-153
M. Shawn Copeland, "Cornel West's Improvisational Philosophy of Religion,"
pp. 154-166
Josiah Ulysses Young III, "Existential Aptness and Epistemological Correctess:
Cornel West and the Identity of the 'Lord'," pp. 167-175
Part III, Political philosophy
Iris M. Young, "Cornel West on Gender and Family: Some Admiring and Critical
Comments," pp. 179-191
Charles W. Mills, "Prophetic pragmatism as political philosophy," pp.
193-223
John P. Pittman, "'Radical historicism,' antiphilosophy, and Marxism,"
pp. 224-244
Floyd W. Hayes III, "Cornel West and Afro-nihilism: a reconsideration,"
pp. 245-260
Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr., "On Cornel West on W. E. B. Du Bois," pp. 261-279
Howard McGary, Jr., "The political philosophy and humanism of Cornel West,"
pp. 281-292
Peniel E. Joseph, "'It's dark and Hell is hot:' Cornel West, the
crisis of African-American intellectuals and the cultural politics of race,"
pp. 295-311
Clarence Shole Johnson, "Reading Cornel West as a humanistic scholar: rhetoric
and practice," pp. 312-334
Nada Elia, "Cornel West's representations of the intellectual: but some
of us are brave?" pp. 335-345
Cornel West, "Afterword," pp. 346-362
Select Bibliography of Cornel West's Works, pp. 363-366
Select Commentary on West's Work, pp. 366-368