Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities

Reworking Political Concepts:
A Lexicon in Formation

Orozoco [sic] Room
66 W. 12th St. 7th Fl. (Room 712), The New School
Friday and Saturday, December 3 and 4, 2010

J.M. Bernstein is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
at the New School for Social Research. He works primarily in the areas
of aesthetics and the philosophy of art, ethics, critical theory, and
German Idealism. Among his books are: The Philosophy of the Novel
(Minneapolis, 1984); The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant
to Derrida and Adorno (Oxford, 1992); Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics
(New York, 2001); Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the
Meaning of Painting (Stanford, 2006); he edited and wrote the
introduction for Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics 
(New York, 2003). He is presently at work on book provisionally entitled:
Torture and Dignity: Reflections on Moral Injury.