Jeremy J. Shapiro

Jeremy J. Shapiro (born 1940), is an American academic, educational performance artist, translator, and activist.

His main intellectual products/innovations include In addition he works in the following areas: the sociology of digital simulation and of on-line environments; the experience of multiple identities and multiple realities among users of information and communication technologies;[5] and enhancing the experience of music listening.

[7] At Fielding Graduate University he served as senior consultant for academic information projects.

After graduating from the High School of Music and Art in New York City, where he studied bassoon and conducting, he studied at Harvard with Robert Paul Wolff and Barrington Moore Jr.; at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main with Herbert Marcuse, Theodor W. Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas; at Brandeis University with Maurice Stein and Kurt H. Wolff; and at the City University of New York with Abbe Mowshowitz.

Through his translations he introduced Habermas's work (Toward a Rational Society and Knowledge and Human Interests) and Marcuse's early work (Negations) to the English-speaking world.