Areas of Study:
 
 
 
   
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Political and Social Thought

The Department supports research and teaching in contemporary social and political theory, with strengths in the history of political thought. Faculty are working in a number of different areas that range chronologically from the classical and late antique world, through the early modern period, and beyond to twentieth-century European and American thought.

  
 
 

Faculty

David Bates
History of political thought; revolution

Judith Butler
Social and political theory

Marianne Constable
Social and political theory

David Cohen
Social theory

Pheng Cheah
Social and political theory

Hans Sluga
Political philosophy

Martin Jay Affiliated faculty
Marxist theory; Frankfurt School

Victoria Kahn, Affiliated faculty
Early modern political thought

Anthony Long, Affiliated faculty
Ancient political thought