American writer and academic. He is known for writing about music, philosophy as a way of life, social movements, popular culture, intellectual history, eighteenth century to the present; radical social theory and history of political philosophy. He currently teaches at The New School. Born in 1947, he was Chair of Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research from 1992 until 2013. He is Professor of Politics at Liberal Studies at The New School.
The original editor of The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll (1976), he has written about music since the 1960s. his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New Republic, The New York Times and Newsweek etc. Articles on philosophy and history have appeared in The London Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review and Lingua Franca.
