Before Cornel West (b. 1953) was a celebrity he was a philosopher. I first knew him from his wonderful 1989 book The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism. Jervis Anderson in The New Yorker provided one of the first profiles of West I ever read in 1994 (see here).
It was with some consternation that I have watched his rise to broader …
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