Publications about Cornel West

[see also publications by West and the Cornel West Web]

 

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.

Sundquist, Eric J. "The Talented Tenth." Review of Gates and West, The Future of the Race. Commentary 102.1 (1996): 60-63.

Van Leeuwen, Mary Stewart. "Parenting and Politics: Giving New Shape to 'Family Values'." Christian Century 115.21 (29 July 1998): 719-721.

West, Charles C. "Review of West, The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought." Theology Today 49.3 (October 1992): 439.

Westbrook, Robert B. "Democratic Evasions: Cornel West and the Politics of Pragmatism." Praxis International 13.1 (April 1993).

White, Jack E. "Philosopher with a Mission." Time Magazine 141.23 (7 June 1993)

Wieseltier, Leon. "The Unreal World of Cornel West: All and Nothing At All." New Republic 212 (6 March 1995): 31-36.

Williams, Delores S. "Review of West, Race Matters." Theology Today 51 (April 1994): 158+.

Wood, Mark David. Cornel West and the Politics of Prophetic Pragmatism. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 2000.

Yancy, George. "Review of Lerner and West, Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin." Philadelphia Tribune Magazine (July 1995): 11.

Yancy, George. "Review of West, Restoring Hope." Philadelphia Tribune Magazine (February 1998): 11, 20.

Yancy, George, ed. Cornel West: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.
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