Berel Lang (born November 13, 1933) is an American professor emeritus of philosophy and an author. His research interests include political philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, literary theory.Berel Lang
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. Born in

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, he earned his B.A. from

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(1954); Ph.D. in philosophy,

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(1961, thesis: ''The Cognitive Significance of Art''The Cognitive Significance of Art
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and the

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. He was a professor of philosophy at the

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from 1961 to 1983 and at the State University of New York at Albany from 1983 to 1997. In 1997 he became professor of humanities at

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. He also was visiting professor in several other universities.

Books

* 1975: ''Art and Inquiry'' * 1983: ''Philosophy and the Art of Writing'' * 1983: ''Faces and Other Ironies of Writing and Reading'' * 1990: ''Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide'' * 1990: ''The Anatomy of Philosophical Style: Literary Philosophy and the Philosophy of Literature'' * 1991: ''Writing and the Moral Self'' * 1995: ''Mind's Bodies: Thought in the Act'' * 1996: ''Heidegger's Silence'' * 1999: ''The Future of the Holocaust: Between History and Memory'' * 2000: ''Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics'' * 2005: ''Post-Holocaust: Interpretation, Misinterpretation, and the Claims of History'', essays * 2012: ''Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence'' * 2013: ''Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life'' * 2017: ''Genocide: The Act as Idea''

References

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