Peter L. Berger, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of History and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has taught at the University of Chicago, New School for Social Research, and Stanford University, and is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin
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Dr. Berger was Founding Chair of the Department of History at San Francisco State University, where he was also Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Founded in 1963 to honor the life and work of Max Weber, this center today serves as a hub for interdisciplinary research into social theory and its application to contemporary culture and society.
Dr. Berger has published widely on Weber, Marx, Freud, Durkheim, Durkheim's disciples (Jaspers, Mannheim), Weber's disciples (Habermas), modernity (and the "anomie" that haunts it), Marx's early work (particularly his unpublished notebooks), Adorno (particularly his later writings), American culture (particularly its relation to modernity; see The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on National Character), America's emergence as a postmodern nation, and the relationship between postmodernity and postindustrial society. His latest book is a critical study of American culture since World War II: The Fate of Modernity: From Novelty to Dissonance in Contemporary America .