Faculty Guide

Title

Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy

History of Ideas
Politics

Expertise

Political theory. History of political thought. Nationalism. Cultural pluralism.

Courses Taught

POL	10a	Introduction to Political Theory
POL	186b	Classical Political Thought
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
POL	340d	Proseminar

Scholarship

Yack, Bernard. ""Rhetoric and Public Reason: An Aristotelian Theory of Deliberation." Political Theory 34. (2006): 417-38.

Yack, Bernard. "Chapter 18 Five Questions on Political Philosophy." Political Questions. Ed. Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen. London: Automatic Press, 2006

Yack, Bernard. "Naming and Reclaiming the Enlightenment." European Journal of Political Theory 5. (2006): 343-54.

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.