-
The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and AdornoPhilosophical Quarterly 48 (190): 132-134. 1998.
-
D Kolb's The Critique Of Pure Modernity (review)Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 14 41-47. 1986.
-
1Conscience And Transgression: The Persistence Of MisrecognitionBulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain 29 55-70. 1994.
-
On Philosophy and Film, edited by Cynthia A. Freeland and Thomas E. WartenbergEuropean Journal of Philosophy 5 83-87. 1997.
-
998 Autonomy and solitudeIn Keith Ansell-Pearson (ed.), Nietzsche and Modern German Thought, Routledge. pp. 192. 1991.
-
Aporia of the SensibleIn Ian Heywood & Barry Sandywell (eds.), Interpreting visual culture: explorations in the hermeneutics of the visual, Routledge. pp. 218. 1999.
-
57Mimetic Rationality and Material Inference : Adorno and BrandomRevue Internationale de Philosophie 1 7-23. 2004.
-
78De-divinization and the vindication of everyday life: Reply to RortyTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 54 (4). 1992.This essay originated as a reply to Richard Rorty's ”Habermas, Derrida, and the Functions of Philosophy“. In it, I contest Rorty's deployment of the categories of private selfcreation and the collective political enterprise of increasing freedom, first developed in Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, to demonstrate that the philosophical projects of Habermas and Derrida are complementary rather than antagonistic. The focus of my critique is two-fold: firstly, I contend that so-called critiques of…Read more
-
Freedom from nature? Post-Hegelian reflections on the end(s) of artIn Stephen Houlgate (ed.), Hegel and the Arts, Northwestern University Press. 2007.
-
50Review of Martin Jay, Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (7). 2006.
-
19Review of Michael Kelly, Iconoclasm and Aesthetics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004 (3). 2004.
-
4Confession and forgiveness: Hegel's poetics of actionIn Richard Thomas Eldridge (ed.), Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination, Cambridge University Press. pp. 34--65. 1996.
-
'Aesthetics, Modernism, Literature: Cavell's Transformations of Philosophy,”In Richard Eldridge (ed.), Stanley Cavell, Cambridge University Press. pp. 107--42. 2003.
-
TragedyIn Richard Thomas Eldridge (ed.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy and literature, Oxford University Press. pp. 71--94. 2009.
-
27Art and Aesthetics After Adorno (edited book)Fordham University Press. 2022.Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory offers one of the most powerful and comprehensive critiques of art and of the discipline of aesthetics ever written. The work offers a deeply critical engagement with the history and philosophy of aesthetics and with the traditions of European art through the middle of the 20th century. It is coupled with ambitious claims about what aesthetic theory ought to be. But the cultural horizon of Adorno's Aesthetic Theory was the world of high modernism, and much has h…Read more
-
1Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2002.This 2002 volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously influential in this crucial period of aesthetics. These texts include the first translation into English of Schiller's Kallias Letters and Moritz's On the Artistic Imitation of the Beautiful, together with translations of some of Hölderlin's most important theoretical writings and works by Hamann, Lessing, Novalis and Schlegel. In a philosophical introduction J. M. Bernstein…Read more
-
16Adorno and Ethics (edited book)Duke University Press. 2006.Because of his preoccupation with the formal aspects of music and literature, Theodor W. Adorno is often regarded as the most aesthetically oriented thinker of the Frankfurt School theorists. It is Adorno’s perceived commitment to aestheticism—the study of art for art’s sake and the study of art as a source of sensuous pleasure, rather than as a vehicle for culturally constructed morality or meaning—that many scholars have criticized as hostile to genuine, concrete, substantive political, social…Read more
-
36. Negative Dialektik. Begriff und Kategorien III. Adorno zwischen Kant und HegelIn Theodor W. Adorno (ed.), Theodor W. Adorno: Negative Dialektik, Akademie Verlag. pp. 89-118. 2006.
-
17The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary PerspectivesLexington Books. 2009.Edited by Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch & Christopher Zurn. This volume collects original, cutting-edge essays on the philosophy of recognition by international scholars eminent in the field. By considering the topic of recognition as addressed by both classical and contemporary authors, the volume explores the connections between historical and contemporary recognition research and makes substantive contributions to the further development of contemporary theories of recognition.
-
44On Jean Améry: Philosophy of CatastropheLexington Books. 2011.This volume offers the first English language collection of academic essays on the post-Holocaust thought of Jean Améry, a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. Comprehensive in scope and multi-disciplinary in orientation, contributors explore central aspects of Améry's philosophical and ethical position, including dignity, responsibility, resentment, and forgiveness
-
22Anthropocene Self-Consciousness: Response to “Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto”Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 43 (1): 139-142. 2023.The prior issue of Krisis (42:1) published Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto, with the aim to instigate a debate of the issues raised in this manifesto – the necessary re-thinking of the role (and the concept) of nature in critical theory in relation to questions of ecology, health, and inequality. Since Krisis considers itself a place for philosophical debates that take contemporary struggles as starting point, it issued an open call and solicited responses to the manifesto. This is one of the s…Read more
-
35Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2002.This 2002 volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously influential in this crucial period of aesthetics. These texts include the first translation into English of Schiller's Kallias Letters and Moritz's On the Artistic Imitation of the Beautiful, together with translations of some of Hölderlin's most important theoretical writings and works by Hamann, Lessing, Novalis and Schlegel. In a philosophical introduction J. M. Bernstein…Read more
-
52Adorno: Disenchantment and EthicsCambridge University Press. 2001.Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his contributions to aesthetics and social theory. Critics have always complained about the lack of a practical, political or ethical dimension to Adorno's philosophy. In this highly original contribution to the literature on Adorno, J. M. Bernstein offers the first attempt in any language to provide an account of the ethical theory latent in Adorno's writings. Bernstein relates Adorno's ethics to major trends in contemporary moral philosophy. He analyses the …Read more
-
2Political modernism : the new, revolution, and civil disobedience in Arendt and AdornoIn Lars Rensmann & Samir Gandesha (eds.), Arendt and Adorno: political and philosophical investigations, Stanford University Press. 2012.
-
18On the Dependency Structure of Self-Consciousness and the Ethical Constitution of ReasonGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 42 (2): 283-314. 2021.
Greenwich Village, New York, United States of America