Cornel West’s reputation as a public and celebrity intellectual has overshadowed his important contributions to philosophy, especially by those in the “analytic” tradition. Professor Clarence Sholé Johnson provides a rectification of this situation in this benchmark thought-provoking book. After a brief biographical sketch, Johnson leads us through a comprehensive examination of West’s philosophy from West’s conceptions of pragmatism, existentialism, Marxism, and Prophetic Christianity to his persuasive writings on the Black-Jewish relations, affirmative action, the role of the Black intellectuals, and his engagement with contemporary debates. Johnson focuses especially on West’s views on the ethics of social justice and how these inform West’s entire theoretical framework. Conjoined with the growing number of anthology and journal articles on West’s work, this book admirably solidifies the claim that West offers a set of ideas with which scholars in philosophy in general and Africana thought in particular must grapple. CORNEL WEST AND PHILOSOPHY (Routledge, 2002) is a unique study of and an indispensable guide to West’s diverse philosophical writings.