2018–2019 Political Theory Workshop
The 2018–2019 Political Theory Workshop was organized by co-chairs Shaul Notkin and Julia Brown
Fall 2018
- Practice Job Talk
Alan Kellner, “States of Nature in Immanuel Kant’s Doctrine of Right” - Sam McChesney, “Montaigne’s Concept of Courage”
Discussed by Noah Stengl
Published in 2021 in The European Legacy 26 (2): 131–148.
Winter 2019
- Tom Dabrowski, “Lawyers and the Invention of Private Property: Property Rights and Legal Reform in the Early United States”
Discussed by Evgenia Mikriukova - Kyle Jones, “The Not-so-concrete Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse: Hegelian Ontology in Theory and Practice”
Discussed by Tom Dabrowski - Shawn Dean, “Clinging to Symbols of Order: Anarchy in Tocqueville’s Early Writings on Algeria”
Discussed by Emre Gercek - Audrey Nicolaïdes, “Liberal Internationalism and its Histories”
Discussed by Owen Brown
Spring 2019
- Sam McChesney, “Talking to the ‘Elite’: The Western Reception of Afghānī’s ‘Answer to Renan'”
Discussed by Gina Giliberti - Lucien Ferguson, “From Love to Care: Reorienting to the World with Arendt’s Amor Mundi”
Discussed by Shaul Notkin
- Arturo Chang, “Imagining America: International Commiseration and National Revolution in the Modern Post-Colony”
Discussed by Owen Brown