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Stephen Eric Bronner (born: 19 August 1949, in New York City, New York, USA) Professor (II) of Political Science, Comparative Literature and German Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Bronner earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at City College of New York, spent a year at the University of Tübingen on a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship in 1973, and completed his Master of Arts (M.A.) and Doctor of Philosophy ([[Ph.D.) from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been employed at Rutgers University since 1976, and has held visiting professor positions at the New School for Social Research (1989), and most recently at the Universität Leipzig (1998).

A contributor to many scholarly journals, including New Politics, Political Theory, Social Research and Telos, Bronner has edited and written several books in the fields of contemporary political theory, history and culture and is the winner of the Michael A. Harrington Prize for his 1991 book, Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism.

He currently is the Senior Editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, and on the editorial boards of the journals New Political Science, X-Alta (France) and Eszmelet (Hungary).

Books by Stephen Bronner:

Scholarly Works

• Sketch for a New Critical Theory (Zurich: Diaphanes Verlag, publication pending)

• Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004).

• A Rumor about the Jews: Anti-Semitism. Conspiracy, and the Protocols of Zion (Paperback Edition–New York: Oxford University Press, 2004; Hardcover Edition–New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000; Translation into German–Berlin: Propylaen Verlag, 2000).

• Imagining the Possible: Radical Politics for Conservative Times (New York: Routledge, 2002).

• Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists (2nd Edition–New York: Routledge, 2002; 1st Edition–London: Basil Blackwell, 1994; Translation into Portuguese–Rio de Janiero: Papirus, 1997).

• Socialism Unbound (2nd Edition:–Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2000; 1st edition–New York: Routledge, 1990).

• Ideas in Action: Political Tradition in the Twentieth Century (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999; Translation into Korean–Seoul, Korea: Ingansarang Publishers, 2003).

• Camus: Portrait of a Moralist (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999; Translation into German–Berlin: Verlag Vorwerk 8, 2002).

• Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism (New York: Routledge, 1992; Translation into German–Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2000).

• Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary for Our Times (3rd printing– Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997; 2nd printing–New York: Columbia University Press, 1987; 1st printing–London: Pluto Press, 1980).

Popular Works

• Albert Camus: The Thinker, The Artist, The Man (New York: Franklin Watts, 1996).

• Leon Blum (New York: Chelsea House Publishing Co., 1986).

• A Beggar’s Tales (New York: Pella Press, 1978).

Edited Works

• Planetary Politics: Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, publication pending).

• Twentieth Century Political Theory: A Reader (Revised 2nd Edition–New York: Routledge, publication pending 2004; 1st Edition, 1996).

• Vienna: The World of Yesterday 1889-1914, co-edited with F. Peter Wagner, (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press International, 1997).

• The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, edited, translated, and with an introduction (2nd edition–Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press International, 1993; 1st edition–Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1979).

• Critical Theory and Society, co-edited with Douglas Kellner,(New York: Routledge, 1989).

• Passion and Rebellion: The Expressionist Heritage co-edited with Douglas Kellner (2nd printing–New York: Columbia University Press, 1988; 1st printing– South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey; New York: Universe Books; and London: Croom Helm, 1983).

Series Editor

• Polemics (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield).
• Interventions: Social Theory and Contemporary Politics (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press).

Related Links

• Rutgers University
• Department of Political Science, Rutgers University
• Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture