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Stephen Eric Bronner (b. 19 August 1949) is a noted political philosopher and Professor (II) of Political Science, Comparative Literature, and German Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States.

Biography

Born in New York City, New York, United States on 19 August 1949, Bronner earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at City College of New York, spent a year at the Universität Tübingen in Germany 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, biography, 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).

Theoretical contributions

Throughout the corpus of his work, Stephen Bronner ties together the tradition of political theory and theorists within their social, political, cultural and historical contexts, offering critical reflections, and from that tradition seeks to establish its salience to both meet the challenges and forge the shape of the next millennium. Through his interpretive and critical analyses combined with a creative blend of old traditions with new commitments and values, he articulates the potential contributions of this tradition for developing a genuinely progressive politics that squarely confronts a host of issues facing modern society and engages the future with a new international (or "planetary") outlook combined with a "cosmopolitan sensibility."

Books

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). ISBN 0231126085

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). ISBN 0195169565

Imagining the Possible: Radical Politics for Conservative Times (New York: Routledge, 2002). ISBN 0415932602

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). ISBN 0415932637

Socialism Unbound (2nd Edition:–Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2000; 1st edition–New York: Routledge, 1990). ISBN 081336776X

Ideas in Action: Political Tradition in the Twentieth Century (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999; Translation into Korean–Seoul, Korea: Ingansarang Publishers, 2003). ISBN 0847693872

Camus: Portrait of a Moralist (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999; Translation into German–Berlin: Verlag Vorwerk 8, 2002). ISBN 0816632839

Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism (New York: Routledge, 1992; Translation into German–Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2000). ISBN 041590465X

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). ISBN 0271025050

Popular works

Albert Camus: The Thinker, The Artist, The Man (New York: Franklin Watts, 1996). ISBN 0531113051

Leon Blum (New York: Chelsea House Publishing Co., 1986). ISBN 0877545111

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). ISBN 0415948991

Re-Framing the International: Law, Politics and Culture, co-edited with Lester Edwin J. Ruiz and R. B. J. Walker (Editor (New York: Routledge, 2002). ISBN 0415931754

Vienna: The World of Yesterday 1889-1914, co-edited with F. Peter Wagner, (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press International, 1997). ISBN 0391039873

Television and the Crisis of Democracy, co-edited with Douglas Kellner (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1990). ISBN 0813305497

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). ISBN 1573925810

Critical Theory and Society, co-edited with Douglas Kellner,(New York: Routledge, 1989). ISBN 0415900417

Socialism in History: Political Essays of Henry Patcher (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984). ISBN 0231056605

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). ISBN 0876633564

Series editor

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