Marshall Berman
Marshall Berman was an American political scientist, philosopher, writer, literary critic, journalist and university teacher (1940–2013). He was born at The Bronx and died at Manhattan.
Also recorded as Marshall Howard Berman.
Marshall Berman in brief
- Born
- 1940
- Died
- 2013
- Known for
- political scientist, philosopher, writer, literary critic, journalist and university teacher
- Place of birth
- The Bronx
Contents
Catalogued works
20 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1929 to 1979.
All That Is Solid Melts into Air. All That Is Solid Melts into the Air. Aventuras no marxismo. De ruinas y horizontes. El Debate modernidad-posmodernidad. NEW YORK CALLING: FROM BLACKOUT TO BLOOMBERG; ED. BY MARSHALL BERMAN. Atlante metropolitano. The politics of authenticity. Manhattan Picture Worlds Thomas Wrede. Aventuras Marxistas. Living for the city. Modernity. On the Town. Todo Lo Solido Se Desvanece En El Aire. Adventures in Marxism. Mazerbo (Venice), dated 1955, pen and brown ink on white wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1959.541. Bella Venezia, dated 1945, oil on canvas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1947.472. Map, dated 1979, gelatin silver print, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1987.101.3. Figures with Boat, dated 1929, pen and brush and black ink on cream wove paper, laid down on cream card, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1946.309. Medawar, Sir Peter Brian (1915-1987), dated 1937-1991, held by Wellcome Collection.
In public collections
Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.
The Art Institute of Chicago: 4 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.
Literature
13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.
Marshall Berman Responds, Dissent, 2005. Los tiempos de la modernidad. A propósito de Marshall Berman / Times of Modernity. Regarding Marshall Berman, Historiografías, 2017. ZYGMUNT BAUMAN E MARSHALL BERMAN: VIESES DA ANTROPOLOGIA CULTURAL NA MODERNIDADE E CONSUMISMO, ARACÊ, 2026. Remembering Marshall Berman, City, 2015. A Brief Reply to Marshall Berman, Dissent, 2005. Um banho de luz em Times Square e na prosa de Marshall Berman, ArtCultura, 2011. "EL OTRO" E O MESMO:BORGES E A CRONOTOPIA DE UMA MEMÓRIA EM CRISE, Revista Decifrar, 2025. Havens and Cages: Reinventing States and Households in the Modern World-System, Journal of World-Systems Research, 2015. Tradição... transgressão! Singer no shtetl e na rua, ArtCultura, 2008. O tempo cronológico e o tempo metamórfico em Moho, de Paulete Jonguitud Acosta, Revista de Estudos Literários da UEMS - REVELL, 2026. On the Road to ‘Some' Place: Sofia Coppola’s Dissident Modernism Against a Postmodern Landscape, Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2015. Gentrificação e resistência popular nas feiras e portos públicos da Estrada Nova em Belém (PA), Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas. Aracy Amaral: uma visão crítica em busca de uma identidade nacional nas artes visuais - 1963/1974, ARS, 2022.
Digitised editions and texts
6 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.
تجربه مدرنیته (2000) — Internet Archive. Berman, Marshall. Todo Lo Solido Se Desvanece En El Aire [2004] (2004) — Internet Archive. All that is solid melts into air (1982) — Internet Archive. Living for the city (2006) — Internet Archive. Berman, Marshall. Todo Lo Solido Se Desvanece En El Aire [ocr] [ 2004] (2004) — Internet Archive. The politics of authenticity: radical individualism and the emergence of modernsociety. (1980) — Internet Archive.
Scholarly footprint
Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 16 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Evidence base
This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.
In detail
Marshall Berman studied at Harvard University, Columbia University and University of Oxford. the recorded working language is English.
Employment is recorded with City University of New York.
Works named in the authority record are All That Is Solid Melts into Air.
Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship.
Chronology
- 1940Marshall Berman born at The Bronx.
- 1980The politics of authenticity: radical individualism and the emergence of modernsociety. digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1982All that is solid melts into air digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2000تجربه مدرنیته digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2004Berman, Marshall. Todo Lo Solido Se Desvanece En El Aire [2004] digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2004Berman, Marshall. Todo Lo Solido Se Desvanece En El Aire [ocr] [ 2004] digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2006Living for the city digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2013Marshall Berman died at Manhattan.
Sources
Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.
- 1.
“Marshall Berman”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Consult the source - 2.
Wikidata, structured authority record Q3312100: Marshall Berman
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