Peter Berger Archives - Public Seminar

Arien Mack reflects on her half-century stewardship of The New School’s flagship quarterly journal

James Miller [JM]: Let’s start at the beginning. What year did you come to The New School for Social Research? Arien Mack [AM]: 1966. I had just gotten my Ph.D. JM: At that time, how much did you know about the legacy, the traditions of The New School? Did you know anything at all ...

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Critical Reflections in Lights of Peter Berger’s The Many Altars of Modernity

September 18, 2018 • by Jose Casanova

Given its association with the New School for Social Research, Public Seminar seems to me a fitting space for some critical reflections triggered by former NSSR faculty member Peter Berger’s last major work, The Many Altars of Modernity.[1] The book is significant in a dual sense. It recaptures the style and restates some ...