Title
Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy
Degree
Ph.D., Harvard University
Field of Specialty
Political theory. History of political thought. Nationalism. Cultural pluralism.
Contact Information
Olin-Sang American Civilization Center 202
781-736-2640
yack@brandeis.edu
Bernard Yack
Publications
Yack, Bernard. ""Democracy and the Love of Truth"." Truth and Democracy. Ed. Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 165-80.
Yack, Bernard. Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Yack, Bernard. ""Birthright, Birthwrongs: Contingency, Choice and Cosmopolitanism in Recent Political Thought"." Political Theory 39. (2011): 406-16.
Bernard Yack. ""You Don't Have to be a Fanatic to Act Like One"." Studi Veneziani LIX. (2010): 135-151.
Yack, Bernard. ""Rhetoric and Public Reason: An Aristotelian Theory of Deliberation." Political Theory 34. (2006): 417-38.
Yack, Bernard. The Fetishism of Modernities: Epochal Self-Consciousness in Contemporary Social and Political Thought. University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.
Yack, Bernard. Liberalism without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar. University of California Press, 1996.
Yack, Bernard. The Problems of a Political Animal: Community, Conflict, and Justice in Aristotelian Political Thought. University of California Press, 1993.
Yack, Bernard. The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche. Princeton University Press, 1986.
Courses Taught
| POL | 10a | Introduction to Political Theory |
| POL | 187b | Conservative Political Thought |
| POL | 189a | Marx, Nietzsche, and Twentieth-Century Radicalism |
| POL | 190b | Seminar: Democratic Theory |
| POL | 192b | Seminar: Topics in Law and Political Theory |
| POL | 211a | Graduate Seminar: Political Theory |
| POL | 216b | Seminar: Advanced Topics in Political Theory |