April 5, 2017
A Monument, A World of His Own
Berger’s closeness to the material led again and again to revelation: the only way to get to the universal was through the material.
Unlike most public intellectuals, Berger gives hope to the precise degree that he excoriates almost everything in our world. Throughout his work, he performs that rare—that tragically rare—Marxist trick of transforming the idea that the world is horrible into a source of deep comfort, of energy, of action but also of peace.
