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2018–2019

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