 Jay Bernstein, after having taught for nearly 25 years at the University of Essex in England, and spending a brief spell at Vanderbilt University, is now University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He works primarily in the areas of aesthetics and the philosophy of art, ethics, critical theory, and German Idealism. Among his books are: The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adorno; Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting; he edited and wrote the introduction for Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics. In all these writings, his goal has been to defend modernism as exemplifying a form of rationality and reason that escapes the reductions of scientific and instrumental rationality.
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