Morris Berman was born on August 3,1944 and is an American historian and social critic.
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Morris Berman earned a BA in mathematics at Cornell University in 1966 and a PhD in the history of science at Johns Hopkins University in 1971.
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Morris Berman has served on the faculties of a number of universities in the US, Canada, and Europe.
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Morris Berman emigrated from the US to Mexico in 2006, where he was a visiting professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico City from 2008 to 2009.
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Morris Berman's work emphasizes the legacies of the European Enlightenment and the historical place of present-day American culture.
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Morris Berman wrote a trilogy on consciousness and spirituality, published between 1981 and 2000, and another trilogy on the American decline, published between 2000 and 2011.
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Morris Berman has written two: one on alternative forms of consciousness and spirituality and one on the decline of American civilization.
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Morris Berman says that this original world view has been replaced during the past 400 years with the modern paradigm called Cartesian, Newtonian, or scientific, which depends on an isolated observer, proposing that we can understand the world only by distancing ourselves from it.
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Morris Berman argues that the modern consciousness is destructive to both the human psyche and the planetary environment.
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In 1990, Morris Berman received the Governor's Writers Award for his book Coming to Our Senses.
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Morris Berman moved to Mexico in 2006 where he continues to reside as of 2023.