Michael Steinberg

Michael Steinberg has a doctorate in intellectual history from the University of Rochester. He writes on the ways through which images and ideas come to seem self-evident, how such assumptions shape experience and constrain social action, and how their specific constellation in the contemporary world have led to the multiple crises we recognize but seem powerless to address. This work draws on both history and philosophy, in particular German idealism in its historical context, and on non-Western bodies of thought and practice such as the South Indian tantric tradition of Sri Vidya. His history of the Adirondack Mountains for young readers, Our Wilderness, was named the best individual cultural contribution to the Adirondack Park Centennial celebration. Michael and his wife, the photographer Loret Steinberg, live in Rochester, New York, under the close supervision of their two cats.