Morris Berman: End Of Empire…Are We There Yet?
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 9 September 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
We return to the broadcast with cultural historian Dr. Morris Berman to discuss his latest book titled “Are We There Yet?” which consists of a collection of lectures, unpublished essays and reflections on the continued decline of American Empire.
Websites
http://morrisberman.blogspot.com
Publications
http://www.amazon.com/Morris-Berman/e/B001HCWOWM
About the Guest
Morris Berman is well known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He has taught at a number of universities in Europe and North America, and has held visiting endowed chairs at Incarnate Word College (San Antonio), the University of New Mexico, and Weber State University. During 1982-88 he was the Lansdowne Professor in the History of Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Berman won the Governor’s Writers Award for Washington State in 1990, the Rollo May Center Grant for Humanistic Studies in 1992, and the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity (from the Media Ecology Association) in 2013.
He is the author of a trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness–-The Reenchantment of the World (1981), Coming to Our Senses (1989), and Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (2000)–and in 2000 his Twilight of American Culture was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times Book Review. Dr. Berman relocated to Mexico in 2006, and during 2008-9 was a Visiting Professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City.
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| 0:27.5 | We return to the broadcast with cultural historian Dr. Morris Berman. |
| 0:31.8 | His works include a trilogy on human consciousness, a trilogy on the American Empire, |
| 0:37.0 | numerous recent works which include |
| 0:38.6 | poetry, fiction such as the Man Without Qualities, and Eurotic Beauty, which is a fascinating |
| 0:44.5 | look into Japan. |
| 0:45.5 | We'll be discussing his latest book titled Are We There Yet, which consists of a collection |
| 0:50.9 | of lectures, unpublished essays, and reflections on the continued decline of American Empire. |
| 0:57.1 | Our previous discussions with Dr. Berman covered his trilogy on American Empire, and listeners can go |
| 1:03.8 | back and listen to those talks. On this episode, we'll be catching up on what's going on with |
| 1:09.4 | the Empire since then, centered around his latest book |
| 1:12.6 | Are We There Yet? |
| 1:14.6 | Dr. Berman, what more can be said of life after the U.S. Empire about President Trump? |
| 1:20.6 | How would you assess his presidency since his election 2016? |
| 1:24.6 | It seems to me that a lot of people are talking about Trump today, but I think |
| 1:30.3 | they missed the point. You know, when you talk, there's, he's just a symptom of a bigger systemic |
| 1:36.3 | crisis. So, how can you update us? What's been going on since since since your trilogy came out? |
| 1:45.0 | Well, thank you for having me here and thank you for the question. |
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