The episodes are put together in a magnificent way.”Īngela Davis, a political activist and philosopher, who is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will challenge viewers to consider the humanity of enslaved people and discuss what life was like after the end of slavery. But students “see me reflect on the issues, give my formulations, lay out the framework, put forth the argument, and say these are the assumptions and the presuppositions. You don’t have the table, or the call and response, or the Socratic exchange,” he said. He also challenges assumptions on white supremacist thinking, and outlines the framework for what a truly just society might look like.Īsked how MasterClass compares to his in-person classroom style, the scholar said, “It’s very much like being in my class. In the latest course, West seeks to illuminate the significance of Black love in all its forms. West, a pioneering educator who died in April), and another on empathy with celebrities such as musician Pharrell Williams, professor and essayist Roxane Gay and novelist Walter Mosley. He has been teaching a MasterClass on philosophy (which he’s dedicated to his mother, Irene B. West, the Dietrich Bonhoeffer professor of philosophy at the Union Theological Seminary, has written 20 books, including contemporary classics such as “Race Matters.”
