Jay Bernstein
University Distinguished Professor
New School for Social Research
University Distinguished Professor
New School for Social Research
Jay Bernstein is an American philosopher, and University Distinguished Professor at The New School. He received a BA from Trinity College in 1970 and graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a PhD in 1975. Bernstein is an expert in Continental philosophy and a leading interpreter of the philosophy of Adorno.
Bernstein has published two books on art, The Fate of Art and Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting.
Jay Bernstein is a 2013 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.