For New York Magazine, Lisa Miller profiles Cornel West, surveying the course of his academic career, personal life, and variety…
West’s witness
Cornel West
Focus on the funk: An interview with Cornel West
"I would go with Pierre Hadot and say that the love of wisdom is a way of life; that is…
Religion und Öffentlichkeit
The German translation, by Michael Adrian, of The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere will be published by Suhrkamp…
Religion’s many powers
To say that religion has power in the public sphere is not to say that it can be easily absorbed…
El poder de la religión
El poder de la religión en la esfera pública, the Spanish language edition of The Power of Religion in the…
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
In The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, due out spring 2011 from Columbia University Press and the SSRC,…
Cornel West and David Kyuman Kim on catastrophic politics
In the latest issue of Theory & Event [sub. req.], a conversation between David Kyuman Kim and Cornel West from…
Rethinking secularism: The power of religion in the public sphere
On October 22, 2009, over 1000 people gathered in the vast and venerable Great Hall at New York City's Cooper…
Judith Butler and Cornel West in conversation
In a recent symposium held by the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, the Social Science Research Council and the…
Cornel West on himself
Spreading the word about his new book, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, Cornel West gives an interview at…