STEPHEN ERIC BRONNER
Department of Political Science
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903
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Employment
Board of Governors Professor: Rutgers University, 2015
Distinguished Professor: Rutgers University, 2000
Professor I: Rutgers University, 1990
Visiting Professor: Universitaet Leipzig, 1998
Visiting Professor: New School for Social Research, 1989
Associate Professor: Rutgers University, 1983
Assistant Professor: Rutgers University, 1976
Joint Appointments
Core Faculty: Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers-Newark, 2013
Executive Committee: UNESCO Chair for Genocide Prevention, 2013
Director of Global Relations: Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, 2009
Graduate Faculty: German Studies and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
Education
Ph.D. University of California: Berkeley, 1975
M.A. University of California: Berkeley, 1972
B.A. City College of New York, 1971
Honors and Awards
MEPEACE Award for Contributions to Peace, Network for Peace, 2011
Honorable Mention, David Easton Award: Foundations of Political Theory, APSA, 2009
Sigma Phi Epsilon Faculty Appreciation Award, 2007
Charles E. McCoy Lifetime Achievement Award, New Political Science (APSA), 2005
Certificate for Distinguished Teaching, APSA, 1998
Warren I. Susman Teaching Award, Rutgers University, 1998
Best Teacher, Who's Who among America’s Teachers, 1998
Michael Harrington Book Award, New Political Science (APSA), 1994
Dean's Fellowship, University of California: Berkeley, 1974
Department Scholarship, University of California: Berkeley, 1972
Bennett Essay Prize, City College of New York, 1971
Scholarly Works
***Rational Radicalism and Political Theory: Essays in Honor of Stephen Eric Bronner, edited by Michael J. Thompson, (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010), 300 pgs.
The Bigot: Why Prejudice Persists (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014), 233 pgs.
Modernism at the Barricades: Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia, Paperback Edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014); First Edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012), 184 pgs.
Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism, Second Revised Edition (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014); First Edition (New York: Routledge, 1991), 224 pgs. Michael Harrington Book Award: Caucus for a New Political Science (APSA), 1994; German translation (Frankfurt: SuhrkampVerlag, 1994).
Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 130 pgs. Chinese translation (Beijing: Yilin Publishing House, 2012); Farsi translation (Tehran: OFOQ Publishers, pending; Arabic translation (Cairo: The Arab Foundation for Education and Culture, publication pending).
Socialism Unbound: Principles, Practices, and Prospects, Second Edition with a New Preface (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011); Second Edition (Boulder: Westview Press, 2000); First Edition (New York: Routledge, 1990), 241 pgs.
Camus: Portrait of a Moralist, Second Edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009); First Edition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 179 pgs. Turkish translation (Istanbul: Iletisim Publishing, 2012); German translation (Berlin: VerlagVorwerk 8, 2002).
Peace Out of Reach: Middle Eastern Travels and the Search for Reconciliation(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007), 208 pgs.
Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions, and the Erosion of American Democracy (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2005), 216 pgs.
Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 182 pgs. Chinese translation (Nanjing: Jiangsu Publishing House, 2006); Spanish translation (Pamplona: Editorial Laetoli, 2007); Farsi translation (Tehran: Cheshmeh Publishing House, 2008). Honorable Mention: David Easton Award — best book in Political Theory of the last five years — from American Political Science Association 2009.
A Rumor about the Jews: Anti-Semitism, Conspiracy, and the “Protocols of Zion,” Paperback Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); Hardcover (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000), 177 pgs. Spanish translation (Pamplona: Editorial Laetoli, 2009); German translation (Berlin: The PropylaenVerlag, 2000).
Imagining the Possible: Radical Politics for Conservative Times (New York: Routledge, 2002), 240 pgs.
Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists, Second Edition (New York: Routledge, 2002); First Edition (London: Basil Blackwell, 1994), 323 pgs.Portuguese translation (Rio de Janeiro: Papirus, 1997).
Ideas in Action: Political Tradition in the Twentieth Century (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), 349pgs. Korean translation (Seoul: Ingansarang Publishers, 2003).
Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary for Our Times, Third Printing (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997); Second Printing (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987); First Printing (London: Pluto Press, 1980), 130 pgs.
Popular Works
Albert Camus: The Thinker, The Artist, The Man (New York: Franklin Watts, 1996), 130 pgs.
Leon Blum (New York: Chelsea House, 1986), 140 pgs.
A Beggar’s Tales(New York: Pella Press, 1978), 136 pgs.
Edited Works
The Logos Reader: Rational Radicalism and the Future of World Politics, co-edited with Michael Thompson, (Lexington: University of Kentucky, 2006), 380 pgs.
Planetary Politics: Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
Twentieth Century Political Theory: A Reader, Revised Second Edition (New York: Routledge, 2004); First Edition (New York: Routledge, 1996), pgs. 408.
Vienna: The World of Yesterday 1889-1914,co-edited with F. Peter Wagner, (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press International, 1997), pgs. 279.
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, Second Edition (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1993); First Edition (Boulder: Westview Press, 1979), pgs. 307.
Critical Theory and Society, co-edited with Douglas Kellner, (New York: Routledge, 1989), pgs. 316.
Passion and Rebellion: The Expressionist Heritage, co-edited with Douglas Kellner, Second Edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988); First Edition (South Hadley: Bergin & Garvey; New York: Universe Books; London: Croom Helm, 1983), pgs. 468.
Socialism in History: Political Essays of Henry Pachter (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984), pgs. 361.
Series Editor
Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice (Palgrave/Macmillan)
Genocide, Atrocity, and Human Rights: Co-Editor (Rutgers University Press)
Polemics (Rowman & Littlefield)
Interventions: Social Theory and Contemporary Politics (Westview Press)
Editorial and Advisory Boards
Senior Editor ofLogos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture
Faculty Advisor atWorld Affairs Review
Associate Editor forThe International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the
Present, 5 volumes, edited by Immanuel Ness (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009)
Contributing Editor forUnaCittà (Italy)
International Journal of Political Science and Diplomacy
Palgrave Communications: An Online Journal
Critical Social Theory (Nanjing: China)
Focus on German Studies
Human Rights and Human Welfare
Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
New Political Science
X-Alta (France)
Eszmelet (Hungary)
New York Journal of Sociology
The Left Forum
Civic Diplomacy and Peace Activism
Executive Committee of the UNESCO Chair for Genocide Prevention
Chair of the Executive Committee: US Academics for Peace
Advisory Board: Brussels International War Crimes Tribunal
Advisory Board: Conscience International
Member: International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes against Humanity in Iraq
Advisory Board: Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (Human Rights)
Work undertaken with these Organizations
International Forum of the Ninth International Conference: Lessons of the Holocaust and Contemporary Russia, Sponsored by the Russian Holocaust Fund and the Institut fur Zeitgeschichte-Munich, (Moscow): June 22, 2015.
Delegation with Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry to Congressional Representatives (Washington DC): September 17, 2014.
Delegation with Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry (Ukraine): August 2014.
Delegation with US Academics for Peace (Tehran, Iran): January 18-26, 2014.
Speech for the “Voices of the Free Syrian Children” Benefit Concert at the Kaufman Center (New York City): October 26, 2013.
International Conference on Peacekeeping at the New York Theological Seminary (New York City): May 23, 2013.
Meeting with the Iranian Mission to the United Nations (New York City): September 24, 2012.
Consultations with Syrian Exile Community (USA and Europe): 2012.
Meetings with Hakiyetu (Our Rights), A Congolese NGO: 2011-2012.
Meetings with Social Democratic Activists (Cairo): 2011.
International Conference on Circassian Genocide; Meetings with Georgian Officials: Georgia (Tbilisi): 2010.
Conference and Meetings with Township Leaders in South Africa (Cape Town): 2009.
Meetings with Political and Civic Leaders in Darfur (Nyala) and Sudan (Khartoum): 2008.
American Mideast Leadership Network: Conference of Syrian and American (Rutgers) Students (New Brunswick, NJ): 2008.
Meetings with Political and Civic Leaders in Darfur (El Fasher) and Sudan (Khartoum): 2006.
Meetings with Political and Civic Leaders, Center for Strategic Services (Iran): 2005.
Meetings with President Bashar al-Assad and Foreign Ministry (Damascus): 2005.
Conference Organizer: “Impasse: Alternative Voices in the Middle East” at Columbia University (New York City): 2004.
International Conference Participant: “A Just Peace for Israel-Palestine” (Brussels): 2004.
Meetings with Civic Leaders in Israel and Occupied Territories, Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: 2004.
International Conference on Human Rights, Mofid University (Qom, Iran): 2003.
Articles
“The Example of Paul,” UnaCittà223 (June-July 2015).
“One Dimensional Man at 50,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter 2015).
“Tolerating Intolerance,” Green European Journal (February 25, 2015); reprinted on To the Point Analyses.
“Of Anger and Bigotry,” Reader Supported News (December 23, 2014); reprinted on To the Point Analyses (January 23, 2015).
“World War I and the Labor Movement: On the 100 Anniversary,” UnaCittà 214 (August 2014).
“Iraq Yet Again,” Reader Supported News (June 26, 2014).
“America’s Israel,” Reader Supported News (March 1, 2014); French translation in Palestine/Israel: One State or Two (Paris: Gabriel Péri Foundation, 2014); Italian translation in UnaCittà 210 (February 2014).
“The Sovereign,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 12, No. 3 (Fall 2013); Italian translation in UnaCittà 206 (October 2013); reprinted in Reader Supported News (November 11, 2013); German translation for LettreInternationale No. 103 (Winter 2013).
“Utopia,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 12, No. 2 (June 2013); Italian translation for UnaCittà 202 (June 2013).
“The Right, the Left, and the Election of 2012,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 11, No. 4 (Fall 2012); reprinted in Reader Supported News (October 16, 2012); Italian translation for UnaCittà 198 (November 2012).
“On Assad,” Reader Supported News (June 11, 2012); Italian translation for Una Città 195 (June-July 2012).
“Homage to Diego,” UnaCittà 192 (March 2012).
“Modernism, Surrealism, and the Political Imaginary,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter 2012).
“At Home with the Bigot,” Reader Supported News (February 14, 2012); Italian translation in UnaCittà 190 (January 2012).
“Walking Wall Street,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 10, No. 4 (Fall 2011); reprinted in Reader Supported News (November 11, 2011); Italian translation in UnaCittà 188 (November 2011).
“On Judging American Foreign Policy: Human Rights, Political Realism and the Arrogance of Power,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 10, No. 3 (Summer 2011); reprinted on To the Point Analyses and Reader Supported News (August 31, 2011); Italian translation in UnaCittà 187 (September 2011).
“Imperiled Revolutions,” Reader Supported News (June 24, 2011); reprinted in Jacobin; Italian translation in UnaCittà 186 (July-August 2011).
“Remembering Robert Fitch: Recollections of a Solitary Syndicalist,” Logos: A Journalof Modern Society and Culture Vol. 10, No. 2 (Spring 2011); Italian translation in UnaCittà 183 (April 2011).
“Garbage People,” Reader Supported News (May 23, 2011); reprinted on To the Point Analyses and ZNet; Italian translation in UnaCittà 185 (May 2011).
“Rosa in Cairo,” Reader Supported News (February 8, 2011); reprinted on To the Point Analyses; Italian translation in UnaCittà 182 (March 2011).
“Vilifying Frances,” Reader Supported News (January 28, 2011); reprinted on To the Point Analyses and ZNet.
“A Shameful Inheritance: On the History of Political Violence in America,” Reader Supported News (January 20, 2011); Italian translation in UnaCittà181 (January 2011).
“Notes on the Counterrevolution,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 10, No. 1 (Winter 2011).
“Hidden Nations, Enduring Crimes,” Reader Supported News (January 2, 2011); reprinted on Justice for North Caucasus Group Message Board (December 2010); Italian translation in UnaCittà179 (November 2010).
“The Forest and The Trees: The United States in Afghanistan,” Reader Supported News (September 26, 2010).
“Lying and Accountability: Reflections on the Iraq War,” Reader Supported News (August 13, 2010); Italian translation in UnaCittà 177 (September 2010).
“Realism for the Sudan,” Reader Supported News (August 1, 2010); Italian translation inUnaCittà 176 (August 2010).
“Socialism in America,” Truthout (August 9, 2010); reprinted in Reader Supported News(July 21, 2010); Italian translation in UnaCittà 178 (October 2010).
“Hamas’ Choice,” UnaCittà175 (July 2010).
“Albert Camus: On the 50th Anniversary of His Death,” Reader Supported News (August 22, 2010); Italian translation in UnaCittà174 (May 2010).
“Henry Pachter Meets Albert Einstein,” The Autodidact Project (2005).
“Carrots and Sticks: A Realistic Policy toward Sudan,” ZNet (December 5, 2009).
“Il Potenziale di Cambiamento,” UnaCittà 166 (June-July 2009).
“Constructing a Critical Political Theory,” New Politics 47 Vol. XII, No. 3 (Summer 2009), pgs. 72-84.
“Gaza On My Mind: Old Hopes, Mistaken Assumptions, and New Ideas on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 8, No. 1-2 (Spring 2009); German translation in LettreInternationale 84 (Spring 2009); Italian translation in UnaCittà 163 (March 2009).
“A New Chance for Darfur,” for Project-Syndicate (May 7, 2008). Reprinted in 40 major newspapers worldwide and Z-Net.
“On the Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto,” OutlookVol. 46 No. 2 (March/April 2008).
“Who Are the Palestinians Today?” in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and CultureVol. 7 No. 1 (Winter 2008); reprinted in the Newsletter of the Ibn Saud Institute in Cairo: Civil Society.
“Annapolis and Beyond,” ZNet(February 15, 2008).
“Is Neo-Conservatism Dead?” Project-Syndicate (August 30, 2007); reprinted in The Guardian; Daily Times of Pakistan; The Sunday Times of Sri Lanka; Daily News of Egypt; Japan Times; The Bangkok Independent; Common Dreams; Daylife; Megite; The Malta Independent; South Asian Media Net; Staebroek News; The Economist’s View;New Brief; Current Developments in the Middle East; The View; The Huffington Post; and various other internet journals and newspapers.
“About Saving Darfur: Reflections on the Carrot and the Stick,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 6, No. 1-2 (Winter/Spring 2007); reprinted in Countercurrents (May 30, 2007), ZNet (May 29, 2007), Canadian Dimension (June 2, 2007), andGlobal Business News Online.
“Explaining Iraq,”Znet (May 20, 2007); reprinted in WordPress.
“Images d’uneEopque: Reflexionssur la Correspondance Schoenberg-Kandinsky,” X-AltaNo. 9 (Winter 2006), pgs. 179-194.
“The Sudan and the Crisis in Darfur,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 5, No. 3 (Fall 2006); reprinted on Znet (March 1, 2007).
“Moral Maze,” The New Humanist (November/December 2006), pgs. 32-33.
“Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon: A Crisis Without End,” Outlook Vol. 44, No.5 (September/October 2006), pgs. 5ff.
“Incendiary Images: Blasphemous Cartoons, Cosmopolitan Responsibility, and Critical Engagement,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 5, No.1 (Winter 2006); Italian translation in LetteraInternazionale (publication pending).
“Terror, War, and Democracy: An Interview,” New Political Science Vol. 27, No. 4 (December 2005), pgs. 521-526.
“Republic of Letters,” The New Humanist (March/April 2006), pgs. 24-6; Swedish translation in AxessVol. 4, No. 8 (November 2005), pgs. 14-17.
“Twilight in Tehran,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 4, No. 4 (Fall 2005).
“Iraq Redux: How It Looked Then and How It Looks Now,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 4, No. 3 (Summer 2005).
“Withdrawal Pains: Gaza, Peace, and the Future of Palestine,” Outlook; German translation for Lettre International 69 (Summer 2005).
“Of Reason and Faith: A Reply to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring 2005).
“It Happened Here: The Bush Sweep, the Left, and the American Future,”Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 4, No. 1 (Winter 2005).
“Rumors and Reflections: A Reply to Dean Ian Markham,” Conversations in Religion and Theology Vol. 2, No. 2 (November, 2004), pgs. 212-216.
“Human Rights, Religion, and the Cosmopolitan Sensibility,” Human Rights ReviewVol. 5, No.3 (April-June 2004), pgs. 33-49.
“Dubya’s Fellow Travelers: The Left Fellow Travelers and Mr. Bush’s War” (co-authored with Kurt Jacobsen),Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 3, No. 4 (Fall 2004); reprinted in Canadian Dimension Magazine Web Digest (October 18, 2004).
“The Election and the War at Home” for the Website of the Bundeszentrale for PolitischeBildung (German-French Television) and Arte.
“Interpreting the Enlightenment: Metaphysics, Politics, Critique,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer 2004).
“The Political Legacy of Ronald Reagan,” Tribune (June 11, 2004), pg. 3.
“Constructing Neo-Conservatism,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 3 No. 2 (Spring 2004).
“Distorting Democracy,” Longshot Vol. 27 (2004), pgs. 199-203.
“States of Despair: History, Politics, and Resistance in Palestine,”Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 3, No.1 (Winter 2004); German translation in Lettre International (June 2004); Spanish translation in Panorama International; French translation in X-Alta 8 (Novembre 2004); translated into Hungarian for Eszmelet (publication pending).
“The Anatomy of a Disaster: Class War, Iraq, and the Contours of American Foreign Policy,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 2, No. 3 (Summer 2003); Spanish translation in Panorama International.
“American Landscape: Lies, Fears, and the Distortion of Democracy,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring 2003); Hungarian translation (by CsabaPesti) in EszmeletNo. 60 (December 2003), pp.46-51.
“Misstrauen,” in the “Feuilleton” of the Frankfurter Rundschau (August 6, 2003).
“Misstrauen: Wederzuhorennochdebattieren,” Frankfurter Rundschau (June 8, 2003).
“Baghdad Memories,” Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 2, No.1 (Winter 2003); German translation in the Frankfurter Rundschau (January 25, 2003).
“Lenin’s Century: On the 100th Anniversary of What Is To Be Done?” Radical Society Vol. 29, No. 3 (October 2002), pgs. 67-74; German translation in Utopie-Kreativ No. 51 (Mail, 2003), pgs. 425-34; “Interview” for KrytykaPolityczna no. 2 (Fall, 2002), pgs. 97-110.
“The Radical Imagination: Aesthetics, Spontaneity, Utopia” translated into French for X-Alta no.6 (Octobre, 2002), pgs. 85-95 and into Spanish for La Gouillotina.
“Senator Paul Wellstone: In Memorium 1944-2002” (co-authored with Frances Fox Piven),Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 1, No. 4 (Fall 2002).
“Moving On: New Replies to New Critics” New Politics Vol. 9, No. 1 (Summer 2002), pgs. 224-235.
“Sketching the Lineage: The Critical Method and the Idealist Legacy,” New Political ScienceVol. 24, No. 2 (2002), pgs. 265-292.
“Us and Them: The State of the Union and the Axis of Evil,”Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 2002).
“Versuch das Sozialismuszuverstehen,” Utopie-Kreativ 135 (January 2002).