Philosopher Bernstein To Lecture On “Creative Democracy” At Muhlenberg
Visiting Phi Beta Kappa scholar Richard J. Bernstein will present "Creative Democracy: The Task Still Before Us” at Muhlenberg College, Monday, March 17, 7:30 p.m., in Lithgow Science Auditorium, Trumbower Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.Wednesday, March 5, 2003 03:19 PM
Visiting Phi Beta Kappa scholar Richard J. Bernstein will present "Creative Democracy: The Task Still Before Us” at Muhlenberg College, Monday, March 17, 7:30 p.m., in Lithgow Science Auditorium, Trumbower Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Bernstein, who holds degrees from the University of Chicago, Columbia University and Yale University, is the recipient of five distinguished teaching awards, and is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at New School University. He taught at Haverford College for 23 years and has been a visiting professor at Frankfurt University, Hebrew University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books including “Freud and the Legacy of Moses,” “Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question,” “The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernity” and “Philosophical Profiles: Essays in a Pragmatic Mode.”
Bernstein is past president of the Metaphysical Society of America, the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division) and the Charles S. Peirce Society, and received the John Dewey Society Award for Outstanding Achievement. He was the 1995 American Philosophical Association Romanell Lecturer. For the past few years, his research has focused on a philosophical understanding of the character of evil in the twentieth century. He is also engaged in a reinterpretation of twentieth-century philosophy as The Pragmatic Century.
