Stephen Bronner

Stephen Eric Bronner (born August 19, 1949 in New York ) is a political philosopher and professor of political science , literary studies and German studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick in New Jersey , USA .

He has authored more than twenty books in the field of political theory.

Life

Bronner received his Bachelor (BA) from City College , New York, and then spent a year at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen on a scholarship . Bronner received his Masters in Philosophy (MA) and the subsequent PhD (Ph.D.) in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley .

Bronner has taught at Rutgers University since 1976 . He was also a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research and, in 1998, at the University of Leipzig .

Bronner contributed many articles in professional journals such as B. New Politics , Political Theory , Social Research or Telos . He also wrote several books on contemporary political theory, culture and history. For his book Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of the Radical Left , he was awarded the Michael A. Harrington Prize in 1991 .

He is also one of the editors of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture and serves on the editorial boards of the journals New Political Theory , X-Alta (France) and Eszmelet (Hungary).

Theoretical contributions

Stephen Bronner's work focuses on the connection of traditional political theories and theorists within their social, political, cultural and historical contexts with the aim of jointly reflecting on them critically. Based on tradition, he tries to recognize its salient features and to derive from them both the requirements of and their form of expression in the next millennium.

Through his critical analyzes and interpretations, in which he combines traditional theories with new values ​​and obligations, he articulates the possible importance of tradition for the development of progressive politics and confronts a plethora of tasks that arise from modern society.

Publications

Scholarly works

• Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions, and the Erosion of American Democracy. The University Press of Kentucky, 2005, ISBN 0813123674 .
• Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, ISBN 0231126085 .
• A Rumor about the Jews: Anti-Semitism. Conspiracy, and the Protocols of Zion. Berlin: Propylaen Verlag, 2000, ISBN 0195169565 .
• Imagining the Possible: Radical Politics for Conservative Times. New York: Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0415932602 .
• Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists. London: Basil Blackwell, 1994, ISBN 0415932637 .
• Socialism Unbound. New York: Routledge, 1990, ISBN 081336776X .
• Ideas in Action: Political Tradition in the Twentieth Century. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999, ISBN 0847693872 .
• Camus: Portrait of a Moralist. Berlin: Verlag Vorwerk 8, 2002, ISBN 0816632839 .
• Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2000, ISBN 041590465X .
• Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary for Our Times. London: Pluto Press, 1980, ISBN 0271025050 .

Popular works

• Albert Camus: The Thinker, The Artist, The Man. New York: Franklin Watt, 1996, ISBN 0531113051 .
• Leon Blum. New York: Chelsea House Publishing Co., 1986, ISBN 0877545111 .
• A Beggar's Tales. New York: Pella Press, 1978.

Edited works

• The Logos Reader: Rational Radicalism And the Future of Politics. With Michael J. Thompson. University Press of Kentucky, 2005, ISBN 0813191483 .
• Planetary Politics: Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
• Twentieth Century Political Theory: A Reader. New York: Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0415948991 .
• Re-Framing the International: Law, Politics and Culture. With Lester Edwin J. Ruiz and RBJ Walker. New York: Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0415931754 .
• Vienna: The World of Yesterday 1889–1914. With F. Peter Wagner. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press International, 1997, ISBN 0391039873 .
• Television and the Crisis of Democracy. With Douglas waiter. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1990, ISBN 0813305497 .
• The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1979, ISBN 1573925810 .
• Critical Theory and Society. With Douglas waiter. New York: Routledge, 1989, ISBN 0415900417 .
• Socialism in History: Political Essays of Henry Patcher. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984, ISBN 0231056605 .
• Passion and Rebellion: The Expressionist Heritage. With Douglas waiter. South Hadley, Mass .: Bergin & Garvey; New York: Universe Books; and London: Croom Helm, 1983, ISBN 0876633564 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Stephen Bronner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Stephen Eric Bronner , Political Science Department at Rutgers University