Phi Beta Kappa – Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation

Richard J. Bernstein

Monday, 16 Feb 2004 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union

Richard J. Bernstein is the author of Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation; Freud and the Legacy of Moses; Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question; The New Constellation: The Ethical-Political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernity; Philosophical Profiles: Essays in a Pragmatic Mode; Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics and Praxis; The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory; and Praxis and Action. He is the Vera List Professor of Philosophy and dean of the Graduate Faculty in the New School for Social Research.

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