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J. Peter Euben, Research Professor

J. Peter Euben
Contact Info:
Office Location:  319 Perkins Lib
Office Phone:  +1 919 660 4367
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Teaching (Fall 2008):

Education:

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1968
Ph.D., London School of Economics, 1968
Masters, University of California, Berkeley, 1964
Bachelor of Arts (with honors), Swarthmore College, 1961
Bachelor of Arts, Exeter College, Oxford, 1961
Specialties:

Political Theory
Research Interests: Political Philosophy and Ethics

PETER EUBEN (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Research Professor of Political Science and the Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Ethics. He specializes in ancient, modern, and contemporary political thought; literature and politics; political education; democratic culture and politics; and the politics of morality. He is the author of The Tragedy of Political Theory, Corrupting Youth, and Platonic Noise, editor of Political Theory and Greek Tragedy, and co-editor of Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy. He has published articles in numerous journals including The American Political Science Review, and Political Theory. He has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research council, the National Humanities Foundation, and was a Laurence Rockefeller Fellow at the Princeton Center for the Study of Human Values. He has also won five teaching awards. He is presently working on a book entitled, The Necessities of Utopia and the Prospects for Rationality.

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. J.P. Euben, The Uses of Classical Political Theory in Contemporary America, Historically Speaking (March, 2005) (plus responses to my critics.) .
  2. J.P. Euben, Cultural Wars All Over, USA Today The Magazine (2005) .
  3. J.P. Euben, Pure Corruption, in Private and Public Corruption, edited by Herfferman and Klein (2004), Roman & Littlefield .
  4. J.P. Euben, Platonic Noise, Political Theory (Winter, 2003) .
  5. J.P. Euben, Arendt as Political Educator, in Arendt and Education, edited by M. Gordon (forthcoming), Roman & Littlefield .