The 2016–2017 Political Theory Workshop was organized by co-chairs Boris Litvin and Christina LoTempio.
Fall 2016
- Joe Grant, “Whiteness, Masculinity, Innocence”
Discussed by Arturo Chang - Javier Burdman, “Pietism, Political Modernization, and Philosophy: Kant on Responsibility and Evil”
Discussed by Alan Kellner - Andrew Day, “A Subject without a Sovereign: Thomas Hobbes and the English Civil War”
Discussed by Tom Dabrowski - Practice Job Talk
Chris Sardo, “Contested Responsibility: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Responsibility”
Winter 2017
- Christina LoTempio, “Recovering a Shared Critique: Arendt and Horkheimer and Adorno”
Discussed by Javier Burdman - Boris Litvin, “To Keep Persuading without Convincing: Democratic Theory, Rousseau’s Lawgiver, and The Politics of Audience”
Discussed by Arturo Chang - Gina Giliberti, “Appearing Emotional: Affective Politics in the Arendtian Public”
Discussed by Lexi Neame - Lexi Neame, “The Worldliness of Truth in Politics”
Discussed by Javier Burdman - Chris Sardo, “Revaluing Responsibility”
Discussed by Boris Litvin - Alan Kellner, “Should We All Head for the Woods? Kant’s Rousseau and the Problem of Civilization”
Discussed by Tom Dabrowski - Kyle Jones, “Reason without Enlightenment: Possibility, Politics, and Choice in John Dewey’s Pragmatism”
Discussed by Tom Dabrowski - Arturo Chang, “Sublime, Mortal, and Rare: Will, Choice, Freedom, and Authority in Rousseau”
Discussed by Boris Litvin - Lucy Cane, “The Value of Archaism and the Place of Identity in Democratic Politics”
Discussed by Shaul Notkin
Spring 2017
- Javier Burdman, “Democratic Politics between the Beautiful and the Sublime: Arendt’s and Lyotard’s Readings of Kant’s Aesthetic Judgment”
Discussed by Lucy Cane - Malia Bowers, “Pathologies of Space and Time in Academic Feminism: A Nietzschean Dual Interpretation”
Discussed by Chris Sardo - Chris Sardo, “Politicizing Responsibility”
Discussed by Kyle Jones - Boris Litvin, “Biography’s ‘Uncertain, Flickering, and often Dim Light’: Arendt on Action, Audience, and Authorship”
Discussed by Lexi Neame - Rhiannon Auriemma, “Doing Feminism: The Quest for Feminist Action”
Discussed by Christina LoTempio - Javier Burdman, “Kant on the Sublime and the Judgement of Action”