Thomas de Zengotita

Thomas de Zengotita (born c. 1944) is an author and contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University and teaches at the Dalton School and New York University. His most recent book is called Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It (2005). In 2010, he co-wrote the narration for a film directed by Adrian Grenier entitled Teenage Paparazzo.

He is presently at work on two other books. The first, The Historical Significance of Postmodernism: Toward New Humanism is due out in 2017 from Palgrave Macmillan. The second, Toward a New Foundation for Human Rights: a Phenomenological Approach is due out in 2018 from Stanford University Press.