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Teacher Reviews 3 3 teacher reviews add a review. Add a review for Max Whyte. All Positive Negative. Aside from everyone's instant admiration of Max's dry, erudite British witticism, he has an uncanny ability to read the densest, most incomprehensible books and make them not only understandable, but interesting.
In a commitment, the agent incurs obligations in virtue of his or her voluntary actions but without knowing in advance the precise content of these obligations in the future. The commitment model allows us to better describe the oppressive character of social relations, the obligation to overcome them, and even the means by which to do so. Benjamin McKean is a political theorist whose dissertation seeks to understand what the obligation to achieve global justice requires of individuals.
In part by demonstrating the surprising extent to which John Rawls's theory of justice relies on elements of Hegel at key junctures, the project shows how citizens must shape their own dispositions in order for political society to function fairly. The dissertation then develops a criterion of solidarity to help individuals understand their political obligations in a social world that forces them to cooperate internationally with others whom shared institutions and practices fail to treat as free and equal.
In doing so, the project also advances a methodology for better linking ideal and non-ideal theory. His other research projects include work on questions of theory and practice, the relationship between aesthetics and power, and the attitudes of resentment and friendship in democracies.
His current project , British Romanticism and the Principles of Political Knowledge , reassesses the inward turn readers of Romanticism have long recognized as essential to its literature: the turn to the mind, for the major Romantics, is not an escape from history but a necessary precondition of political regeneration.
It demonstrates how the drama of knowledge, specifically the competition among various models of epistemic justification, unfolds in the poetry and political prose of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Burke, and Wollstonecraft.
Related research and teaching interests include eighteenth-century poetry and philosophy, Victorian poetry, German and American Transcendentalism, philology, and the history of literary criticism and theory.
While at the University of Chicago, Timothy has taught courses on British Romantic poetry and world literatures. Laura Montanaro is a political theorist who is working on democratic theory in the area of non-electoral representation. Her research focuses on two broad and related questions. How might democratic representation develop outside of electoral institutions, not only within established democracies, but also in those places where representative democracy is underdeveloped or entirely absent, including the global arena?
And how should we theorize and normatively assess various forms of non-electoral representation? Laura is currently revising her dissertation for publication as a monograph, as well as preparing articles on the constitutive effects of representation, and the legitimacy of citizen representatives. Laura received her Ph. Her dissertation, entitled, "Tribal Nation: Politics and the Making of Modern Anthropology in India" explores the entangled histories of social science, colonial militarism, frontier politics, and tribal governance in India, starting in the nineteenth century.
Her thesis examines the agonistic relationship between anthropology as a formal discipline and contemporary tribal movements, which share common histories, archives, and conceptual formations that trace back to colonial policies of frontier pacification.
Her research shows that anthropology, in both its colonial and nationalist formulations, was deeply invested in the management of tribal areas, and therefore, as a modern techno-science, its history must be written in conjunction with the political moments and social challenges that shape its disciplinary practices, theories, methods, and conceptual frameworks.
Poornima is currently revising her manuscript for publication. She is broadly interested in the history of anthropology and its relationship to decolonization; mercenaries, insurgents, and the problem of sovereignty in contemporary South Asia; and the impact of extractive activities, such as coal mining and timber logging, on India's democracy. Karthik Pandian is an artist whose practice seeks to unsettle the contradictions at the heart of the monument.
The universal and contingent, sacred and profane, proximate and distant confront one another in his work. Concerned in particular with the way in which history lurks in matter, Pandian often uses 16mm film to excavate sites for fragments of political intensity. The sculptural works that support, enshroud and sometimes obscure his film projections are produced from materials drawn from his site research and assume the form of architectural constructions.
Through moving image, sculpture and syntheses of the two, his work imagines freedom in relation to the impositions of architecture. His work has been the subject of numerous published writings, including a feature in Artforum and a catalogue essay by Michael Taussig.
Pandian's exhibitions have been supported by grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Durfee Foundation amongst others.
Her dissertation, Freedom and the State in the Age of Market Economy, presents a novel history of freedom in early nineteenth century France that uncovers the role of Constant, Tocqueville, as well as radical figures such as Sismondi and Blanc in building a distinct modern and social republican theory of freedom.
The dissertation examines the contributions of these authors to think through the material conditions of individual freedom as self-development before the dual threats of subjection posed by other individuals as competitors in the market and by the growing power of the state.
Secondary fields of research include contemporary normative political theory, in particular the debate over government neutrality. Lauren Silvers received her Ph. Her areas of specialization are nineteenth-century French poetry and the history of science and psychology.
Her work focuses on revising the ideas of modernity that typically inform literary studies of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lauren has taught for several years in the Media Aesthetics sequence of the College Core at the University of Chicago and has edited several books for fine artists to accompany exhibitions in New York. In her spare time she loves the state of Vermont from afar. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century British literature, the emergence of the social sciences, and the relationship between political thought and literary form.
Her current book project aims to explain why Romantic and Victorian writing so pervasively overcrowds its imagined social worlds. Far from reflecting any simple demographic fact, she argues, texts and genres from Wordsworth's Prelude to the Dickensian city novel to domestic sensation fiction formulate a new politics of population and a range of aesthetic responses to the rise of biopower.
Her readings reveal how the task of managing human life in the aggregate shapes the narratives of development for which the nineteenth century is known. In works by Malthus, Mary Shelley, De Quincey, Engels, Gaskell, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, she identifies the making of the masses as a necessary condition for literature and modern political discourse alike.
Bettina Stoetzer is an anthropologist whose research focuses on the intersections of ecology, nationalism, and urban life. Bettina holds an M. Her current book project, tentatively titled Ruderal City , expands her doctoral thesis and develops an analytic framework that attends to heterogeneity in the ruins of European nationalism and capitalism. Bettina has previously published a book on feminism and anti-racism in Germany InDifferenzen , argument, and has co-edited Shock and Awe.
War on Words New Pacific Press, — a collection of essays that explores the current global situation through the political lives of words.
Corey received his PhD in history from Stanford University in His research focuses on the economic and political history of early modern Italy. In other projects he is interested in material culture, the problem of customs fraud in the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds, and information flows between Italy and the Ottoman Empire. She works in the fields of modern social and political thought and critical theory.
Her dissertation examines the political uses, material effects, and the structuring agency of the Stalinist discourse in socialist and post-socialist East-European philosophy.
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