Background
Rothstein, Edward Benjamin was born on October 16, 1952 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph H. and Phyllis Rothstein.
(Emblems of Mind is a beautifully written, marvelous and e...)
Emblems of Mind is a beautifully written, marvelous and entertaining book. Rothstein manages to merge the topics of math and music with depth and clarity.
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(From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's...)
From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's paradise of Marx, utopian ideas seem to have two things in common--they all are wonderfully plausible at the start and they all end up as disasters. In Visions of Utopia, three leading cultural critics--Edward Rothstein, Martin Marty, and Herbert Muschamp--look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are still worth pursuing. Rothstein contends that every utopia is really a dystopia-- one that overlooks the nature of humanity and the impossibilities of paradise. He traces the ideal in politics and technology and suggests that only in art--and especially in music--does the desire for utopia find satisfaction. Marty examines several models of utopia--from Thomas More's to a 1960s experimental city that he helped to plan--to show that, even though utopias can never be realized, we should not be too quick to condemn them. They can express dimensions of the human spirit that might otherwise be stifled and can plant ideas that may germinate in more realistic and practical soil. Muschamp looks at Utopianism as exemplified in two different ways: the Buddhist tradition and the work of visionary Viennese architect Adolph Loos. Utopian thinking embodies humanity's noblest impulses, yet it can lead to horrors such as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Regime. In Visions of Utopia, these leading thinkers offer an intriguing look at the paradoxes of paradise.
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Rothstein, Edward Benjamin was born on October 16, 1952 in Brooklyn. Son of Joseph H. and Phyllis Rothstein.
In English literature from Columbia University, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (1994).
Rothstein holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University (1973), an Master of Arts In addition, Rothstein did graduate work in mathematics at Brandeis University. He was at the New York Times for a long time, but he took a buyout from the newspaper and joined the Wall Street Journal. Rothstein was the cultural critic-at-large for The New York Times, particularly examining the reach and depth of museums, large and small, one by one.
He has worked as a music critic for The New Republic and as the chief music critic for the Times.
As a composer, Rothstein supports the idea that music may be linked in a distant way to physical and mathematical ideas such as string theory. He explores this notion in his book Emblems of Mind.
(From the sex-free paradise of the Shakers to the worker's...)
( One is a science, the other an art; one useful, the oth...)
(Emblems of Mind is a beautifully written, marvelous and e...)
Board member Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, 1987-1991, East Midwood Jewish Center, Brooklyn, since 1990.
Married Marilyn Levine, June 21, 1981. Children: Dena, Aaron, Anna.