Cornel R. West Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice
Publications (scholarly)
Books, authored or co-authored:
Brother West: Loving and Living Out Loud. With David Ritz. New York: Smiley Books, 2009.
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism. New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.
The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country. With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: Free Press, 2000.
The Cornel West Reader. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 1999.
The Future of American Progressivism: An Initiative for Political and Economic Reform. With Roberto Manbageira Unger. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.
The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America’s Beleaguered Moms and Dads. With Sylvia Ann Hewlett. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America. Ed. Kevin Shawn Sealey. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997.
The Future of the Race. With Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York: A. A. Knopf, 1996.
Jews and Blacks: Let The Healing Begin. With Michael Lerner. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1995.
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Religion in America. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Race Matters. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993. 2nd ed. 2001.
Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism. Monroe, Me.: Common Courage Press, 1993.
The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1991.
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Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. With bell hooks. Boston: South End Press, 1991.
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism. Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Prophetic Fragments: Illuminations of the Crisis in American Religion and Culture. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1988.
Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1982. 2nd ed. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002.
Books, edited:
Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom. Carlsbad, Calif.: Smiley Books, 2008.
African-American Religious Thought: An Anthology. With Eddie Glaude, Jr. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003.
The Courage to Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption. With Quinton Hosford Dixie. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.
Taking Parenting Public: The Case for a New Social Movement. With Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Nancy Rankin. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States. With Jack Salzman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. With Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
White Screens, Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side. With Colin MacCabe. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Post-Analytic Philosophy. With John Rajchman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
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Theology in the Americas: Detroit II conference papers. With Caridad Guidote, Margaret Coakley. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1982.
Articles:
“Lukacs: A Reassessment.” Minnesota Review, 2011, v. 19, pp. 86-102.
“Black-Brown Relations: Are Alliances Possible?” With Jorge Klor de Alva. Social Justice, 1997, v. 24, no. 2, pp. 65-83.
“The Legacy of Raymond Williams.” Social Text, 1992, no. 30, pp. 6-8.
“A Matter of Life and Death.” October, 1992, v. 61, pp. 20-23.
“Decentering Europe: A Memorial Lecture for James Snead, Introduced by Colin MacCabe.” Critical Quarterly, 1991, v. 33, no. 1, pp. 1-19.
“The New Cultural Politics of Difference.” October, 1990, v. 53, pp. 93-109.
“The Limits of Neopragmatism.” Southern California Law Review, 1990, v. 63, no. 6, pp. 1747-1751.
“The Role of Law in Progressive Politics.” Vanderbilt Law Review, 1990, v. 43, no. 6, pp. 1797-1806.
“Hegel, Hermeneutics, Politics: A Reply to Charles Taylor.” Cardozo Law Review, 1989, v. 10, no. 5-6, pp. 871-876.
“Critical Legal Studies and a Liberal Critic.” Yale Law Journal, 1988, v. 97, no. 5, pp. 757-771.
“Between Dewey and Gramsci: Unger’s Emancipatory Experimentalism.” Northwestern University Law Review, 1987, v. 81, no. 4, pp. 941-952.
“The Dilemma of the Black Intellectual.” Critical Quarterly, 1987, v. 29, no. 4, pp. 39-52.
Cornel R. West Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice
“Minority Discourse and the Pitfalls of Canon Formation.” Yale Journal of Criticism, 1987, v. 1, no. 1, pp. 193-201.“The Paradox of the Afro-American Rebellion.” Social Text, 1984, no. 9/10, pp. 44-58.
“Reconstructing the American Left: The Challenge of Jesse Jackson.” Social Text, 1984, no. 11, pp. 3-19.
”On Frei’s Eclipse of Biblical Narrative.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 1983, v. 37, no. 4, pp. 299-302.
“Frederic Jameson’s Marxist Hermeneutics.” Boundary 2, 1982, v. 11, no. 1, pp. 177- 200.
“Nietzsche’s Prefiguration of Postmodern American Philosophy.” Boundary 2, 1981, v. 9, no. 3, pp. 241-269.
“Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics and the Myth of the Given.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 1979, v. 34, no. 2, pp. 71-84.
Book Reviews:
Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Monthly Review, 1988, v. 40, no. 4, pp. 51-56.
Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, eds. Rethinking Marxism: Struggles in Marxist Theory. Monthly Review, 1987, v. 38, pp. 52-56.
Manning Marable, How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy and Society. Critical Sociology, 1986, v. 13, no. 3, pp. 114-115.
Louis Dupre, Marx’s Social Critique of Culture. Journal of Religion, 1986, v. 66, no. 1, pp. 85-86.
Mark Naison, Communism in Harlem during the Great Depression. Monthly Review, 1985, v. 37, pp. 48-51. Cornel R. West Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins. Religious Studies Review, 1985, v. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-38.
John P. Gunnemann, The Moral Meaning of Revolution. Journal of Religion, 1981, v. 61, no. 2, pp. 218-219.
Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 1981, v. 37, no. 1, pp. 179-185.
Paul Holmer, The Grammar of Faith. Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 1980, v. 35, no. 3, pp. 279-285.