NJIT - PublicInfo: David Rothenberg, PhD

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David Rothenberg, PhD

David Rothenberg, PhD	David Rothenberg, professor in the department of humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology, incorporates digital technology when performing his work. A better understanding of why birds sing led Rothenberg on a journey into the seemingly disparate worlds of science, poetry and music. The result is the publication in April 2005 of Why Birds Sing (Basic Books), the first introduction to the world of bird song to combine science, music and poetry to make sense of why birds sing. Rothenberg also is the author of Sudden Music: Improvisation, Art, Nature (University of Georgia Press, 2001) Blue Cliff Record: Zen Echoes (Codhill Press, New Paltz, NY, 2001), Hand's End: Technology and the Limits of Nature (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993), Is It Painful to Think? Conversations with Arne Naess (University Press, University of Minnesota, 1992), and Always the Mountains (University of Georgia Press, 2002). Rothenberg edited The Book of Music and Nature (Wesleyan University Press, 2001), and Parliament of Minds (SUNY Press, 1999) interviews with leading philosophers in conjunction with a public broadcasting television series of the same name, of which he was a co-producer. Rothenberg also is the editor of the Terra Nova book series (MIT Press) presenting environmental issues as culture, not only policy. His own writing has been anthologized in The Best Spiritual Writing 1999 edited by Philip Zaleski (Harper San Francisco) and The Soul of Nature: Visions of a Living Earth by M. Tobias. His articles have appeared in Parabola, Orion, The Nation, Wired, and other publications. Rothenburg received his PhD from Boston University.

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