Marshall Berman
| Marshall Berman | |
|---|---|
| Born | Marshall Howard Berman November 24, 1940 Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 11, 2013 (aged 72) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Professor of Political Science |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | Ashkenazi Jewish |
| Alma mater |
Columbia University (B.A., 1961) Oxford University (BLitt, 1963) Harvard University (Ph.D., 1968) |
| Genre | Marxist humanism, Western Marxism, philosophy |
| Subject | Political philosophy, urbanism |
| Notable works | All That Is Solid Melts Into Air |
| Spouse | Shellie Sclan |
| Children | Elijah Tax-Berman, Daniel Berman |
Marshall Howard Berman (/ˈbɜːrmən/; November 24, 1940 – September 11, 2013) was an American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer. He was a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at The City College of New York and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, teaching Political Philosophy and Urbanism.
Marshall Berman was born in New York City in 1940, and spent his childhood in Tremont, then a predominately Jewish neighborhood of the South Bronx. His parents Betty and Murray Berman (both children of Jewish Eastern European immigrants) owned the Betmar Tag and Label Company. His father died of a heart attack at age 48 in the autumn of 1955, shortly after the family had moved to the Kingsbridge neighborhood of the Bronx. Berman attended the Bronx High School of Science, and was an alumnus of Columbia University, BLitt from Oxford University where he was a student of Isaiah Berlin. Berman completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1968. He began working at City College in 1968 where he taught until his death. He was on the editorial board of Dissent and a regular contributor to The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, Bennington Review, New Left Review, New Politics and the Voice Literary Supplement.
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