WEST, Cornel (Ronald)

WEST, Cornel (Ronald). American, b. 1953. Genres: Philosophy, Theology/Religion. Career: Union Theological Seminary, NYC, assistant professor of philosophy of religion, 1977-83, 1988; affiliated with Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, CT, 1984-87, and University of Paris, France, spring, 1987; Princeton University, NJ, professor of religion and director of African American Studies, 1989-. Publications: Prophesy Deliverance!: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity, 1982; Prophetic Fragments, 1988; The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism, 1989; (with bell hooks) Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life, 1991; The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought, 1991; Race Matters, 1993; Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America, 1993; Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism, 1993; (with J.A. Snead) White Screens, Black Images, 1994; (with M. Lerner) Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin, 1995; (with H.L. Gates) Future of the Race, 1996; Restoring Hope, 1997; (with R.M. Unger) Future of American Progressivism, 1998; (with S.A. Hewlett) War against Parents, 1998; Cornel West: A Critical Reader, 1999; (with H.L. Gates) African-American Century, 2000. COEDITOR: (with C. Guidote and M. Coakley) Theology in the Americas: Detroit II Conference Papers, 1982; (with J. Rajchman) Post-Analytic Philosophy, 1985; Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, 1991; Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 1996; Struggles in the Promised Land, 1997; Other Malcolm, 2001. Contributor to periodicals. Address: Department of Religion, 1879 Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, U.S.A. Online address: cwest@princeton.edu