Bergerian

English

Etymology

From Berger +‎ -ian.

Adjective

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.
    • 2003, Jonathan Lethem, “Berger’s Ambivalent Usurpations”, in Thomas Berger, Meeting Evil‎[1], Penguin, published 2012, →ISBN:
      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.
  3. Of or relating to John Berger (1926–2017), English art critic and novelist.
    • 2013, Andy Merrifield, John Berger, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 145:
      This is what a Bergerian philosophy of life, art and politics equally constitutes: poetic as well as pragmatic, a Marxism somehow beyond time.

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