What is Richard J. Bernstein?
{{Infobox philosopher |region = [[Western philosophy]] |era = [[20th-century philosophy]] | image = Richard J. Bernstein.jpg |caption = |name = Richard J. Bernstein |birth_date = {{birth date|1932|5|14}} |birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|2022|7|4|1932|5|14}} |death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. |school_tradition = [[Pragmatism]], [[Praxis School]] |main_interests = {{plainlist| * [[Pragmatism]] * [[Critical theory]] * [[Hermeneutics]] * [[Social philosophy]] * [[Political philosophy]] * [[Deconstruction]] * [[Psychoanalysis]] * [[Marxism]] }} |notable_ideas = {{plainlist| * [[Cartesian anxiety]] * Engaged fallibilistic pluralism * The clash of mentalities }} |influences = {{flatlist| * [[Plato]] * [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]] * [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel]] * [[Karl Marx|Marx]] * [[Søren Kierkegaard|Kierkegaard]] * [[Charles Sanders Peirce|Peirce]] * [[William James|James]] * [[John Dewey|Dewey]] * [[Ludwig Wittgenstein|Wittgenstein]] * [[Paul Weiss (philosopher)|Paul Weiss]] * [[Wilfrid Sellars|Sellars]] * [[Hannah Arendt|Arendt]] * [[Hans-Georg Gadamer|Gadamer]] * [[Jürgen Habermas|Habermas]] * [[Richard Rorty|Rorty]] * [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]] * [[Jacques Derrida|Derrida]] }} |influenced = {{flatlist| * [[Nancy Fraser]] * [[Seyla Benhabib]] * [[Andrew Arato]] * [[Rainer Forst]] * [[Edward S. Casey]] * [[Robert B. Westbrook (historian)|Robert B. Westbrook]] * [[Simon Critchley]] }} }} '''Richard Jacob Bernstein''' (May 14, 1932 – July 4, 2022) was an American philosopher and academic. He taught at [[The New School for Social Research]]. He wrote about [[Pragmatism|American pragmatism]], [[neopragmatism]], [[critical theory]], [[deconstruction]], [[social philosophy]], [[political philosophy]], and [[Hermeneutics]]. Bernstein died in [[New York City]] on July 4, 2022 at the age of 90.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Meyer |first=Thomas |date=5 July 2022 |title=Philosophie: Nachruf auf Richard J. Bernstein |url=https://www.sue