Gerald Cohen
Philosopher, Author
1941 – 2009
Who was Gerald Cohen?
Gerald Allan "Jerry" Cohen, FBA was a Marxist political philosopher who held the positions of Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, University College London and Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford. Born into a communist family in Montreal, Cohen was educated at McGill University, Canada and the University of Oxford where he studied under Isaiah Berlin and Gilbert Ryle.
Cohen was assistant lecturer, lecturer then reader in the Department of Philosophy at University College London, before being appointed to the Chichele chair at Oxford in 1985. Several of his students, such as Alan Carter, Will Kymlicka, John McMurtry, David Leopold, Michael Otsuka, Seana Shiffrin and Jonathan Wolff have gone on to be important moral and political philosophers in their own right.
Known as a proponent of Analytical Marxism and a founding member of the September Group, Cohen's 1978 work Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence defends an interpretation of Marx's historical materialism often referred to as 'technological determinism' by its critics.
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- Born
- Apr 14, 1941
Montreal - Also known as
- Gerald A. Cohen
- G. A. Cohen
- Jerry Cohen
- Gerald Allan Cohen
- G.A. Cohen
- G. A Cohen
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- McGill University
- University of Oxford
- Died
- Aug 5, 2009
Oxford
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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