J.M. Bernstein
Chair and University Distinguished Professor.
PhD 1975, University of Edinburgh.
Office: Room 235, 65 Fifth Avenue
Office Hours: Email for appointment or check updated listed at Student Advisor's Office
Phone: 212-229-5707, ext. 3072
Fax: 212-807-1669
E-Mail: BernsteJ@newschool.edu

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Concentrations:
Social and political philosophy; contemporar y Continental thought; critical theory; aesthetics; modernism; German idealism and romanticism; Anglo-American philosophy; pragmatism.

Current research:
Ethical modernism and political atrocity; modernism in ar t and philosophy; idealism and embodiment.
  

Teaching:
During this academic year, J.M. Bernstein will be teaching the following graduate-level courses:

Publications:
Against Voluptuous Bodies: Adorno’s Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting (forthcoming); Classical and Romantic German Aesthetics (editor, 2002); Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics (2002); “Confession and Forgiveness: Hegel’s Poetics of Action,” in R. Eldridge (ed.), Beyond Representation (1996); Recovering Ethical Life: Jürgen Habermas and the Future of Critical Theory (1995); The Fate of Art (1992).