Marshall Berman

Marshall Howard Berman ( * November 24, 1940 in South Bronx, † September 11, 2013 in Upper West Side ) was an American author. He taught political science and urban studies at the City College of New York and is known for his contributions to Marxist humanism.

Biographical

Berman was born in the South Bronx. His parents ran together, the Betmar Tag & Label Co - a medium-sized textile companies. He went to the Bronx High School of Science and attended courses in history at Columbia University. In the local peace movement to the Vietnam War, he politicized itself; participated in demonstrations of the Students for a Democratic Society. His undergraduate work in literature, he wrote in Isaiah Berlin on the Marxist concept of freedom and individualism. To his former environment also included G. A. Cohen and Bertell Ollman. His doctoral thesis, he finally laid in 1967 at Harvard about Rousseau and Montesquieu, and developed the script later to his first book: The Politics of Authenticity (1970). Berman then entered his first and only academic employment life as Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies at the City College of New York.

Berman's son Marc died in 1980 five years old when his mother fell under the influence of drugs out of the window of their apartment on West End Avenue ( she survived ). His main work is Solid Melts into All That Air is dedicated to his son. During the 1980's had at Marshall Berman an abscess removed in the brain, which remained visible marks on his forehead. He suffered from seizures since then, and sleep apnea. Berman read a lot in the Bible and frequented as an agnostic regularly Anshe Chesed Synagogue the. He died on September 11 at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center of a heart attack he suffered at breakfast with his son in the Metro Diner on the Upper West Side.

Works

Berman served as editor of Dissent and was a regular contributor to The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, the Bennington Review, the New Left Review, New Politics and the Village Voice Literary Supplement.

  • The Politics of Authenticity: Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society ( 1970) Reissued 2009 by Verso Press
  • All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1982 )
  • Adventures in Marxism (1999)
  • On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square (2006)
  • New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg (2007), edited by Marshall Berman and Brian Berger.
  • Introduction to The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Penguin Books, 2010

Berman worked in the following documentaries:

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