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 Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lang, Berel 1933 births Living people 20th-century American philosophers 21st-century American philosophers American male non-fiction writers Historians of the Holocaust Yale University alumni Columbia University alumni Indiana University alumni Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni University at Albany, SUNY faculty University of Colorado faculty Trinity College (Connecticut) faculty People from Norwich, Connecticut