Cornel West Interview | Oxford Political Review
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- OPR Editor-in-Chief interviews Cornel West at 15:00 GMT on Wednesday 2 December live on CZcams and Facebook.
Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth College, and the University of Paris.
Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has written 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics -- Democracy Matters and Race Matters -- which recently celebrated the 25th Anniversary of its debut with a new edition. His memoir Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, and Black Prophetic Fire have also
received much critical acclaim. Dr. West is a frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show, Colbert Report, CNN, C-Span and Democracy Now.
He made his film debut in the Matrix - and was the commentator (with Ken Wilbur) on the official trilogy released in 2004. He also has appeared in over 25 documentaries and films including Examined Life, Call & Response, Sidewalk and Stand.
Last, he has made three spoken word albums including Never Forget, collaborating with Prince, Jill Scott, Andre 3000, Talib Kweli, KRS-One and the late Gerald Levert. His spoken word interludes were featured on Terence Blanchard’s Choices (which won the Grand Prix in France for the best Jazz Album of the year of 2009), The Cornel West Theory’s Second Rome, Raheem DeVaughn’s Grammy-nominated Love & War: Masterpeace, and most recently on Bootsy Collins’ The Funk Capital of the World. In short, Cornel West has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. - a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice. He currently co-hosts a podcast - “The Tight Rope” with Professor Tricia Rose.
Blessed. Listening to Cornel speak makes me feel clean.
Dr.West's increadibly human ability to open you up, with suffering as the imparitive & joy as the prescription; to authentically face my own question of a "willingness to die daily" and why ( something so Supreme)
Imagine if Dr. Cornell West were president.
HOPE! Thank you .
This is a very brilliant metaphor, enlarging of meaning, of "last man," as "hollow man." Under the structure of the settlement on "legal order" and "contract." Implying the lower status of "mere" justice.
This was very interesting, thank you!
This is exactly the stuff that should be on PBS/NPR. But since their funding depends on the federal government they won't dare to do it (too much).
I think NPR would find this to be too divisive these days... If it’s not within a certain liberal lens which many NPR hosts and listeners see as “neutral”, or something like it (hashtag not all NPR listeners), then it seems to be considered too divisive for their programming.. There’s pretty much a specific narrative that they provide, and it’s just as ideological as the narratives they believe they’re avoiding (to be fair, there’s basically always a narrative, and “real” neutrality, if/when possible, is pretty rare), bc liberal centrism isn’t the nonpartisan approach that most of their hosts and listeners believe it to be. To quote an Eastern European trash monster, “It’s pure ideology.”
All that crap said, yeah, wouldn’t it be nice if NPR, and especially PBS, had things like this? I’ll admit, I don’t watch/listen to either very regularly, so maybe there’s some really quality content providing a challenge to the status quo, and I’m just ignorant of it. Me thinks that’s almost definitely not the case, and if/when such challenges appear in their programming, the challenger is almost definitely painted as being biased, and an ideologue, unlike them.. ✌️❤️🏴♾
Great interviewer and dr. West always on point!
Brother West !!!!! He IS my religion.
Good work
❤️
West must take a White House position. Now! He will desire to cry under his pillow after his memorable failure with Obama. However, courage child! Haha. (However, this is serious.)
They'd never let him. Too much integrity and too ready to call out corruption in the neo-liberal system.
socialist...urhh
Haha! Dr West’s tired old ideas are still good for a laugh
Interesting how you couldn't identify anything 🤭