J M Bernstein

Biographic Data

ID253043
NAMEJ M Bernstein
GIVEN NAMESJ M
FAMILY NAMEBernstein
SIGNATUREBERNSTEIN J M
AFFILIATIONSNew School
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS50
TOTAL CITATIONS42
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT5
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Ecocentric Imaginaries for Critical Theory: A Conversation

    Ariel Salleh, J M Bernstein et al.ARTICLEGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal2025

  • Where is the Cross? On Gillian RoseInterview with JM Bernstein

    Open AccessMolly Lazarus, J M Bernstein et al.ARTICLEThesis Eleven2025References: 2

    In this interview with Michael Lazarus, Jay Bernstein reflects on the history of his intellectual friendship with Gillian Rose-until her early death, his dearest friend. It was a friendship rooted in a shared passion for Hegel's philosophy as the ground origin and abiding source of Marxist Critical Theory. In the course of the interview, Bernstein comments on the role of speculative propositions in Rose's reading of Hegel; her modernist understan…

  • Reification in the age of climate catastrophe: After Gillian Rose's critique of Marxism

    Open AccessJ M Bernstein, Jm BernsteinARTICLEThesis Eleven2025References: 10

    In The Melancholy Science and the lecture series Marxist Modernism , Gillian Rose reconstructs Theodor W. Adorno's critical theory of society through the exposition of his theory of reification. Strikingly, Rose argues that it is Nietzsche and not the Hegelian Marxism of Georg Lukács that is the engine of Adorno's theory. Although she argues that Adorno's critical theory is an advance beyond what preceded it, she contends in Hegel Contra Sociolog…

  • On the Dependency Structure of Self-Consciousness and the Ethical Constitution of Reason: Reflections on Yovel’s Hegel Interpretation

    J M BernsteinARTICLEGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal2021

  • Kant and Adorno on Mind and World: From Wild Beauties to Spiral Jetty

    J M BernsteinARTICLENew German Critique2021

    Theodor W. Adorno's governing procedure in Aesthetic Theory is to reconstruct the terms and concepts of traditional aesthetics and the philosophy of art through the actuality of artistic modernism in its various guises. The necessity of this procedure turns on the recognition that modernist art has become a stand-in for the now-wrecked authority of living nature. Adorno contends that "natural beauty," as elaborated by Immanuel Kant, is the recogn…

  • Thinking with Balibar: A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice

    Emily Apter, Étienne Balibar et al.BOOKThinking with Balibar2020

  • The Culture Industry: Selected essays on mass culture

    Theodor W Adorno, J M BernsteinBOOKCulture Industry2020

    The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture. He argued that the culture industry commodified and standardized all art. In turn this suffocated…

  • Culture and Administration

    Theodor W Adorno, J M Bernstein et al.CHAPTERCulture Industry2020

    modo de vida contemporâneo e a natureza.Diante dessa situação, um dos maiores desafios atuais à humanidade está relacionado com o rumo e o sentido da relação entre economia e meio ambiente.

  • Culture Industry Reconsidered

    Theodor W Adorno, J M BernsteinCHAPTERCulture Industry2020

  • Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture

    J M Bernstein, Theodor W AdornoBOOKCulture Industry2020

  • The Schema of Mass Culture

    Theodor W Adorno, J M BernsteinCHAPTERCulture Industry2020

  • Art as Soul-Making from Chauvet to Cinema

    J M Bernstein, Jack BernsteinCHAPTERField Notes on the Visual Arts2019

  • Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon

    Open AccessJ M Bernstein, Adi Ophir et al.BOOKPolitical Concepts2018

  • Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon

    J M Bernstein, Adi Ophir et al.BOOKPolitical Concepts2018

    Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends- these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles, make existing power relations at once self-evident and opaque, and blur the possibility of reimagining them differently. Political Concepts seeks to re…

  • Late Style, First Art: The Fates and Politics of Modernism

    J M BernsteinARTICLEModern Language Notes2018

    Late Style, First Art:The Fates and Politics of Modernism J. M. Bernstein (bio) I. Introduction: Late Modernism In "The Aging of the New Music," Theodor W. Adorno excoriates Pierre Boulez and his disciples for their deadly development of the New Music initiated by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. In less than a generation, the tradition of New Music had evaporated: negation and critique had descended into formalism, pseudo-objectivity, a conflation …

  • Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon

    J M Bernstein, Adi Ophir et al.BOOKPolitical Concepts2018

  • Hegel on Philosophy in History

    Open AccessJohn Mcdowell, Sally Sedgwick et al.BOOKHegel on Philosophy in History2016

    In this volume honouring Robert Pippin, prominent philosophers such as John McDowell, Slavoj Žižek, Jonathan Lear, and Axel Honneth explore Hegel's proposals concerning the historical character of philosophy. Hegelian doctrines discussed include the purported end of art, Hegel's view of human history, including the history of philosophy as the history of freedom (or autonomy), and the nature of self-consciousness as realized in narrative or in ac…

  • Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury

    J M Bernstein, Jaime BernsteinBOOKTorture and Dignity2015

  • Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics

    J M BernsteinBOOKClassic and Romantic German…2012

  • Movement! Action! Belief: Notes for a Critique of Deleuze's Cinema Philosophy

    J M BernsteinARTICLEAngelaki2012Cited by: 1

    Deleuze's philosophy of cinema departs from the standard conception of modernist aesthetics that sees art withdrawing from representation in order to reflect upon the specificity of its medium. While ambitious and influential, Deleuze's attempt fails. Overdetermined by its own metaphysics, it forsakes the real importance of the movies. It is unable to explain how they function and why they matter. This essay pursues three lines of criticism: Dele…

  • Is Ethical Naturalism Possible? From Life to Recognition

    Open AccessJ M BernsteinARTICLEConstellations2011

  • Mad Raccoon, Demented Quail, and the Herring Holocaust

    J M BernsteinARTICLEQui Parle2009

    Research Article| December 01 2009 Mad Raccoon, Demented Quail, and the Herring Holocaust: Notes for a Reading of W. G. Sebald J. M. Bernstein J. M. Bernstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 31–58. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.17.2.31 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. M. Bernstein; Mad Raccoon, Demented Quail, and the Herring Holocaust: Notes for a R…

  • To Be Is to Live, To Be Is to Be Recognized

    J M BernsteinARTICLEGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal2009

  • Promising and Civil Disobedience (Arendt’s Political Modernism)

    J M BernsteinARTICLEGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal2007

  • Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting

    J M BernsteinBOOKAgainst Voluptuous Bodies2006

    The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno. It offers a materialist account of modernism with detailed discussions of modern aesthetics from Kant to Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, and Adorno. It discusses in detail competing accounts of modernism: Clement Greenberg, Michael Fried, Yve-Alain Bois, and Thierry de Duve; and it discusses several painters and artist…