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9America Goes to College: Political Theory for the Liberal ArtsSUNY Press. 2012.Extols the virtue of small liberal arts colleges and the liberal arts tradition.
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George Kateb: Dignity, Morality, IndividualityRoutledge. 2014.George Kateb's writings have been innovatory in exploring the fundamental quandary of how modern democracy—sovereignty vested in the many—might nevertheless protect, respect, promote, even celebrate the singular, albeit ordinary individual. His essays, often leading to unexpected results, have focused on many inter-related topics: rights, representation, constitutionalism, war, evil, extinction, punishment, privacy, patriotism, and more. This book focuses in particular on his thought in three ke…Read more
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Deviations: on the Difference between Marx and Marxist TheoristsHistory of Political Thought 9 (2): 303. 1988.
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Deviations: On the Difference between Marx and Marxist TheoristsHistory of Political Thought 9 (2): 303-25. 1988.
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42Stumbling toward a Democratic Theory of IncestPolitical Theory 41 (1): 5-32. 2013.Prompted by the prominence of incest themes in the U.S. literary canon, the author raises and explores the idea of a “democratic theory of incest.” To that end, the paper uncovers, tracks, and documents the interest in incest throughout the Western canon of political thought. It then presents and addresses a “standoff” in theoretical circles today: whereas many nonliberal political theorists have continued and developed the canonical interest in the politics of incest, contemporary liberals have…Read more
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9Review: Nietzsche Contra Nietzscheanism: Philosophy in the Twilight of an Idol (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies. forthcoming.
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28Acclaim for Antigone's claim reclaimed (or, Steiner contra Butler)In Terrell Carver & Samuel Allen Chambers (eds.), Judith Butler's precarious politics: critical encounters, Routledge. 2008.
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Pomona CollegeRegular Faculty
Claremont, California, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |