Jay Bernstein
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
Email
bernstej@newschool.edu
Office Location
D - 6 East 16th Street
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Jay Bernstein is Distinguished Professor of听听at the 麻豆传媒色情片 for Social Research.
Philosophy, for me, means interrogating the foundations of our life together, how we make sense of the world, and how we fail.听 Philosophy profiles the human as upright and as failing, as knowing and as blinded, as world-making and as suffering, as flourishing and as dying; and how those competing images are bound together in our morals, politics, art, and ordinary life.
Concentrations: Social and political philosophy; contemporary Continental thought; critical theory; aesthetics; modernism; German idealism and romanticism; Anglo-American philosophy; pragmatism.
Degrees Held
PhD 1975, University of Edinburgh
Recent Publications
Selected Books
(Fordham 2018)
听(University of Chicago, 2015)
听(Stanford, 2007)
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听(Cambridge, 2002)
听(Routledge, 1995)
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Selected Articles and Book Chapters
"Remembering Isaac: on the Impossibility and Immporality of Faith," in Paul Kottman (ed.),听听(Fordham, 2017)
"'Our amphibian problem': nature in history in Adorno's Hegelian Critique of Hegel," in Rachel Zuckert and James Kreines (ed.),听(Cambridge, 2016)
鈥淎mery鈥檚 Devastation and Resentment: An Ethnographic Transcendental Deduction,鈥澨Tijdschrift voor Filosofie听(2014)
"Blind Intuitions: Modernism's Critique of Idealism,"听British Journal of the History of Philosophy听(web: January 2015; print: December 2014)
鈥'The Demand for Ugliness鈥: Picasso鈥檚 Bodies,鈥 in J.M. Bernstein, et. Al.,听听(Fordham, 2013)
"Forgetting Isaac: Faith and the Impossibility of a Postsecular Society,鈥 in Craig Calhoun, Eduardo Mendietta, Jonathan VanAntwerpen (eds.)听听(Polity, 2013)
鈥溾檛he celestial Antigone, the most resplendent figure ever to have appeared on earth鈥: Hegel鈥檚 Feminism,鈥 in Fanny Soderb盲ck (ed.),听听(SUNY, 2010)
鈥淐onfession and Forgiveness: Hegel鈥檚 Poetics of Action,鈥 in R. Eldridge (ed.),听听(Cambridge, 1996)
Select Talks and Appearances
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"," Thinking Aloud, March 2016
Research Interests
Ethical modernism and political atrocity, modernism in art and philosophy, idealism and embodiment.
Hegel's Phenomenol. of Spirit
GPHI 6018, Fall 2025