Marshall Berman, author and educator, dead at 72
NEW YORK (AP) — Marshall Berman, an author, philosopher and educator whose optimistic, humanist writings on economics, art and culture were shaped by his early and lasting immersion in the works of Karl Marx, has died. He was 72.
Fellow author Todd Gitlin says Berman, a native New Yorker and longtime Manhattan resident, died Wednesday of a heart attack while eating at one of his favorite Upper West Side diners, the Metro.
"Master lyric-analytic Marxist, defiant chronicler of cities, activist, sage, dear friend" was how Gitlin remembered Berman in a posting Thursday on Facebook.
Berman, a hirsute and heavyset man who could pass for a descendent of Marx, had a long and prolific life of the mind. He wrote several books, notably the 1982 publication "All That is Solid Melts Into Air"; served on the editorial board for the leftist magazine Dissent; contributed essays to The New York Times, The Nation and other publications, and taught politics at the City University of New York and the City College of New York.
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