Faculty Guide

Title

Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy

German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature
History of Ideas
Politics

Expertise

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

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

Scholarship

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.