Summer 2023
- Thursday, July 27
Lida Maxwell, Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2019)
Facilitated by Sam McChesney - Tuesday, August 29
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2022)
Facilitated by Shai Karp - Monday, September 25
Kohei Saito, Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2023)
Facilitated by Charlotte Mencke
Summer 2022
The theme of the Summer 2022 reading group was “Books We Would Like to Read.”
- Tuesday, July 19
Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi, Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory (Medford: Polity, 2018) - Friday, August 5
María Lugones, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) - Wednesday, August 17
Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) - Friday, September 2
Sara Ahmed, Complaint! (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021)
Summer 2020
The theme of the Summer 2020 reading group was “Emerging Voices in Political Theory,” where we read recent books by emerging political theorists. The group was organized by Tim Charlebois.
- Friday, July 10
Ella Myers, Worldly Ethics: Democratic Politics and Care for the World (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013) - Friday, July 24
Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo, Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016) - Friday, August 7
Neil Roberts, Freedom as Marronage (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015) - Friday, August 21
Adom Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019)
Summer 2018
The theme of the Summer 2018 reading group was “Political Theory: Disciplinary History and Identity.” The group was organized by Lucien Ferguson.
- Friday, June 29
Keally McBride and Margaret Kohn, Political Theories of Decolonization: Postcolonialism and the Problem of Foundations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
George Kateb, “The Adequacy of the Canon.” Political Theory 30, no. 4 (2002): 482–505. - Friday, July 13
Sheldon Wolin, Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004)
“Preface to the Expanded Edition” (xxi–xxvii)
“Preface” (xxix–xxx)
“Chapter One: Political Philosophy and Philosophy” (3–26)
Sheldon Wolin, “Political Theory as a Vocation.” American Political Science Review 63, no. 4 (1969): 1062–1082.
Wendy Brown, “Foreward to the Princeton Classics Edition,” in Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought, xv–xix. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004)
Wendy Brown, “At the Edge.” Political Theory 30, no. 4 (2002): 556–576.
Mary G. Dietz, “Introduction,” in Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, and Politics, 1–17. (New York: Routledge, 2002) - Friday, July 27
Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics Volume I: Regarding Method (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Quentin Skinner, “Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas.” History and Theory 8, no. 1 (1969): 3–53.
James Farr, “Understanding Conceptual Change Politically,” in Political Innovation and Conceptual Change, edited by Terence Ball, James Farr, and Russell L. Hanson, 24–49 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) - Friday, October 6
John G. Gunnell, Between Philosophy and Politics: The Alienation of Political Theory (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986)
Summer 2017
The Summer 2017 reading group was dedicated to exploring the political thought of Judith Shklar and Sheldon Wolin. The group was organized by Arturo Chang.
- Judith N. Shklar
After Utopia: The Decline of Political Faith (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969)
Legalism: Law, Morals, and Political Trials (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986)
Redeeming American Political Thought. Edited by Stanley Hoffmann and Dennis F. Thompson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998)
The Faces of Injustice (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992) - Sheldon S. Wolin
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010)
The Presence of the Past: Essays on the State and the Constitution (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990)
Tocqueville between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003)
Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016)