- Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, academic, social activist, author, public intellectual, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America
| Born: | 02 June 1953 Comment | | How old is Cornel West in 2024? / Age: | 70 years
| | Zodiac sign: | Gemini |
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Cornel West facts
- The son of a Baptist minister, West received his undergraduate education from Harvard University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1973, and received a Ph
- D
- from Princeton University in 1980, becoming the first African American to graduate from Princeton with a Ph
- D
- in philosophy
- He taught at Harvard in 2001 before leaving the school after a highly publicized dispute with then-president Lawrence Summers
- He was Professor of African American Studies at Princeton before leaving the school in 2011 to become Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City
- He has also spent time teaching at the University of Paris
- The bulk of West's work focuses on 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 multiple traditions, including Christianity, the black church, Marxism, neopragmatism, and transcendentalism
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