Stephen Bronner

Stephen Eric Bronner
Born (1949-08-19) 19 August 1949
New York City, New York, United States
Occupation Board of Governors Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University

Stephen Eric Bronner (born 19 August 1949) is a political philosopher and Board of Governors Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Bronner has published over 25 books and 200 journal articles.[1]

Early life and education

Born in New York City, New York, United States on 19 August 1949, Bronner earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at City College of New York, spent a year at the Universität Tübingen in Germany on a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship in 1973, and completed his Master of Arts (M.A.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976, after submitting a dissertation titled "Authenticity and Potentiality: A Marxian Inquiry into the Role of the Subject."[2]

Career

Bronner has been employed at Rutgers University since 1976, and has held visiting professor positions at the New School for Social Research (1989) the Universität Leipzig (1998).[3]

Bronner is Director of Global Relations at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University, and the Executive Chair of US Academics for Peace and an advisor to Conscience International. His activities in civic diplomacy led him to visit Iran, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Sudan, and Darfur. His experiences are discussed in his books dealing with internal relations including Blood in the Sand (2005) and Peace out of Reach (2007).

Bronner is Senior Editor of Logos and on the editorial board of other journals. His various works include studies of contemporary political theory, political history, and cultural politics.

Theoretical contributions

Influenced by critical theory, existentialism, and liberal socialism, Bronner is best known his reinterpretation of tradition and a host of concepts like the class ideal and the cosmopolitan sensibility. He is perhaps the foremost contemporary proponent of developing the linkage of political theory, which has become increasingly academic and metaphysical in orientation, with practical and progressive political concerns. His work is discussed in Rational Radicalism and Political Theory: Essays in Honor of Stephen Eric Bronner, ed. by Michael J. Thompson (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010).

Awards and honors

Bronner was the recipient of the MEPeace Award by the Network for Middle Eastern Politics in 2011. Along with various teaching awards, he received the Michael A. Harrington Prize for Moments of Decision (1991) and Honorable Mention for the David Easton Prize, which honored the best work of political theory of the last five years, for Reclaiming the Enlightenment. Bronner’ received the Charles McCoy Lifetime Achievement Prize from the American Political Science Association in 2005.

Bibliography

Scholarly works

Edited works

Series editor

References

  1. "Stephen Eric Bronner". Rutgers Political Science Department. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
  2. Bronner, Stephen Eric. Authenticity and Potentiality: A Marxian Inquiry into the Role of the Subject Ph.D. Dissertation. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Political Science, 1975 (Doe Memorial Library, Gardner Main Stacks, Call No. 308t.1975.678). Retrieved 20 December 2013.
  3. "Stephen Eric Bronner CV" (PDF). Rutgers Political Science Department. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
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