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Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, academic, activist, author, public intellectual,〔(Cornel West: Public Intellectual ). ''In These Times'', 2004.〕 and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. The son of a Baptist minister, West received his undergraduate education at Harvard University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1973, and received a Ph.D at 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〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cornel West - Center for African American Studies )〕 before leaving the school in 2011 to become Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at the Union Theological Seminary〔(Utsnyc.edu )〕 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Contemporary « Research Pragmatism Cybrary )〕〔"Cornel Ronald West". ''Contemporary Black Biography'', Volume 33. Ed. Ashyia Henderson. Gale Group, 2002. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group. 2004.〕〔"Cornel West y la política de conversión". Thomas Ward. ''Resistencia cultural: La nación en el ensayo de las Américas''. Lima: Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2004, pp. 344–348.〕〔Nishikawa, Kinohi. "Cornel West." ''The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature''. Ed. Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey, Jr. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 1714–18.〕 Among his most influential books are ''Race Matters'' (1994) and ''Democracy Matters'' (2004). West is a frequent media commentator on political and social issues. He often appears on networks such as CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, Fox News and PBS and programs such as ''Real Time With Bill Maher'', ''The Colbert Report'', and ''The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson''.〔(Cornelwest.com )〕 From 2010 through 2013, he co-hosted a radio program with Tavis Smiley, called ''Smiley and West''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tavis Smiley, Cornell West ending their public radio show in December )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Smiley and West – Noam Chomsky: The Final Smiley and West )〕 He has also been featured in several documentaries, and made appearances in Hollywood films ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and ''The Matrix Revolutions'', also providing commentary for the films. He has also made several spoken word and hip hop albums, and has been named MTV's Artist of the Week for his work. == Early life == West was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and grew up in Sacramento, California, where he graduated from John F. Kennedy High School. His mother, Irene (Bias), was a teacher and principal, and his father, Clifton Louis West, Jr., was a general contractor for the Defense Department.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cornel West Biography )〕 Irene B. West Elementary School in Elk Grove, California, is named for his mother. As a young man, West marched in civil rights demonstrations and organized protests demanding black studies courses at his high school, where he was class president. He later wrote that, in his youth, he admired "the sincere black militancy of Malcolm X, the defiant rage of the Black Panther Party () and the livid black theology of James Cone." In 1970, after graduating from high school, he enrolled at Harvard College and took classes from philosophers Robert Nozick and Stanley Cavell. In 1973, he graduated ''magna cum laude'' in Near Eastern languages and civilization. West credited Harvard with exposing him to a broader range of ideas, influenced by his professors as well as the Black Panther Party. West says his Christianity prevented him from joining the BPP, instead choosing to work in local breakfast, prison, and church programs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cornel West」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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