Bergerian

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adjective

Of or relating to Peter L. Berger (1929–2017), Austrian-born American sociologist and Lutheran theologian.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectiveBergerian (comparative more Bergerian, superlative most Bergerian)

comparative more Bergerian · superlative most Bergerian

  1. Of or relating to Peter L. Berger (1929–2017), Austrian-born American sociologist and Lutheran theologian.
  2. Of or relating to Thomas Louis Berger (1924–2014), American novelist.

    In the Bergerian world, masks are often peeled away to reveal further masks, yet just as often what was mistaken for a mask turns out to be a face.

    2003, Jonathan Lethem, “Berger’s Ambivalent Usurpations”, in Thomas Berger, Meeting Evil, Penguin, published 2012, →ISBN
  3. Of or relating to John Berger (1926–2017), English art critic and novelist.

    This is what a Bergerian philosophy of life, art and politics equally constitutes: poetic as well as pragmatic, a Marxism somehow beyond time.

    2013, Andy Merrifield, John Berger, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 145

Origin

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