13 Facts About Marshall Berman

Marshall Howard Berman was an American philosopher and Marxist humanist writer.

Marshall Berman 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 on November 24,1940, and spent his childhood in Tremont, then a predominately Jewish neighborhood of the South Bronx.

Marshall Berman's 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.

Marshall Berman completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Harvard University in 1968.

Marshall Berman began working at City College in 1968 where he taught until his death.

Marshall Berman was on the editorial board of Dissent and a regular contributor to The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, and the Village Voice.

Marshall Berman is best known for his book All That Is Solid Melts into Air.

Also in the 2000s, Marshall Berman co-edited an anthology, New York Calling: From Blackout To Bloomberg, for which he wrote the introductory essay.

Marshall Berman was a participant in Ric Burns' landmark eight-part documentary titled New York.

Marshall Berman died on September 11,2013, of a heart attack.

Marshall Berman put forward his own definition of modernism to counter postmodern philosophies.

Marshall Berman addressed this specifically in his Preface to the 1988 reprint of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air:.