A longtime member of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in New York City, Professor Bernstein taught for more than two decades before that at Haverford College, and before that at Yale University, where his denial of tenure in the 1960s was controversial.  Bernstein was best-known for synoptic works exploring connections between themes in American pragmatism and sometimes analytic philosophy, and various currents in 20th-century Continental philosophy such as hermeneutics and critical theory.  The Wikipedia entry is, surprisingly, fairly informative.  I will add links to memorial notices as they appear.