 The family are of Italian background.He has a cocktail named after him "The Bernasconi," which is equal parts cointreau, campari, citron vodka, a double portion of fresh grapefruit juice, topped up with prosecco and garnished with an orange slice.In addition to extensive work on Heidegger and Levinas, Bernasconi has written on Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hannah Arendt, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon, Jacques Derrida, and numerous others.