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VITA
George Kateb
Born: February 27, 1931 in Brooklyn, New York
Current Address 44 Linden Lane, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
Education: Columbia College. B.A. l952 Columbia University, M.A. l953 Columbia University, Ph.D. l960
Awards and Fellowships:
Phi Beta Kappa President's University Scholarship, Columbia l952-53 University Fellowship, Columbia l953-54 Junior Fellowship, Society of Fellows, Harvard l954-57 Trustee-Faculty Fellowship, Amherst l963-64 Rockefeller Foundation Grant l963-64 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship l97l-72 D.H.L. Honorary Degree, Amherst College 1989 Elected to American Academy of Arts and 1997 Sciences Teaching:
Instructor, Amherst College l957-60 Assistant Professor, Amherst College l960-64 Associate Professor, Amherst College l964-67 Professor, Amherst College l967-87 Kenan Professor l974-78 Joseph B. Eastman Professor l980-87 Visiting Lecturer, Mt. Holyoke College l958 (Spring) Visiting Lecturer, Yale University l973 (Fall) Lecturer, Gauss Seminars in Criticism l985 (Spring) Princeton University Visiting Professor, Harvard University l986 (Spring) Professor of Politics, Princeton University 1987-1999 William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics 1999-2002 William Nelson Cromwell Professor, Emeritus 2002-
Activities:
Book Review Editor, The Massachusetts Review l96l-63 Contributing Editor, The Massachusetts Review l964-70 Executive Committee, New England Political l965-66 Science Association
1 President, New England Political Science Association 1978-79 Vice President, American Society of Political l972-74 and Legal Philosophy Section Editor, Editorial Board, Consulting l972-2000 Editor, Political Theory Consultant, NEH l974- Consulting Editor, Journal of the History 1976- of Ideas Editorial Board, American Political Science l977-80 Review Consulting Editor, Alternative Futures l977-80 Editorial Board, Raritan 1981-2001 Editorial Board, Library of America 1993-
2 List of Publications
Books:
Utopia and Its Enemies (New York and London: Free Press, l963). Reprinted with a new Preface (New York: Schocken, l972).
Political Theory: Its Nature and Uses (New York: St Martin's Press, l968).
Hannah Arendt: Politics, Conscience, Evil (Totowa, N.J. and London: Rowman and Allanheld, l984).
The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992).
Emerson and Self-Reliance (Sage, 1994). 2d edition, with a new Preface (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).
Patriotism and Other Mistakes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Books Edited (with introductions):
Utopia (New York: Atherton Press, l97l) . Mill, On Liberty. Coedited with David Bromwich. (New Haven: Yale, 2003).
Translation:
Selections from a complete translation of Simone Weil, Intuitions pre- chretiennes, in i.e., The Cambridge Review, Spring, l955.
Articles and Commentaries:
"Aspects of Rousseau's "Political Thought," Political Science Quarterly, December l96l. (reprinted once)
"Camus' La Peste: A Dissenting View," Symposium, Winter l963.
"Thucydides' History: A Manual of Statecraft," Political Science Quarterly, December l964.
"Utopia and the Good Life," Daedalus, Spring l965. (reprinted in F. Manuel, ed., Utopias and Utopian Thought, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, l966).
"Kennedy as Statesman," Commentary, June l966. (reprinted three times).
3 "Utopia" in The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
"Utopias and Utopianism" in The Encyclopendia of Philosophy; revised version in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2d edition, 2006.
"The Road to l984," Political Science Quarterly, December l966. (reprinted once).
"George Kennan: The Heart of a Diplomat" in Commentary, January, l968.
"On Report From Iron Mountain," The Massachusetts Review, Summer, l968.
"Some Remarks on Tocqueville's View of Voluntary Associations," Nomos, vol. XI, l969.
"The Campus and its Critics," Commentary, April l969.
"Three Trends in Student Life," Middlebury, Autumn l969. (reprinted once).
"The Majority Principle: Calhoun and His Antecedents," Political Science Quarterly, December l969.
"The Political Thought of Herbert Marcuse," Commentary, January l970. (reprinted twice).
"Teaching and Political Action," The Valley Review, November l970. (reprinted once).
"Politics and Modernity: The Strategies of Desperation," New Literary History, Autumn l97l.
"Reply to Two Critics of Utopia and Its Enemies," Philosophy Forum, Spring l972.
"A Word on Civil Disobedience," Amherst Magazine, Summer l972.
"Comment on Richard Rudner's 'Some Essays of Objectivity,'" Philosophic Exchange (SUNY, Brockport), Summer l973.
"The Next Stage of Nihilism," Social Research, Autumn 1973.
"Imperfect Legitimacy" in Dante Germino and Klaus von Beyme,eds., The Open Society in Theory and Practice (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, l974).
"Comments on David Braybrooke's 'The Meaning of Participation and of Demands for It," Nomos ,vol XVI, l975.
"The Night Watchman State," The American Scholar, Winter l975-76.
"Freedom and Worldliness in the Thought of Hannah Arendt,"
4 Political Theory, May l977.
"The Condition of Political Theory," American Behavioral Scientist, September/October l977.
"Remarks on the Procedures on Constitutional Democracy," Nomos, volume XX, Constitutionalism, l979.
"The Place of Antiutopianism in Utopian Studies: A Few Points," Alternative Futures, Summer l978.
"Hannah Arendt" in Biographical Supplement to The Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, l979.
"On the 'Legitimation Crisis,'" Social Research, Winter l979.
"The Moral Distinctiveness of Representative Democracy," Ethics, April l98l.
"Comments on Gourevitch (on Rousseau)," The Berkshire Review, l980.
"Remarks on Robert B. McKay, "Judicial Review in a Liberal Democracy," Nomos, vol. XXV.
"Religion and Politics" in Tocqueville's America l982, LTV Washington Seminar, 1982.
"Arendt and Representative Democracy," Salmagundi, Spring-Summer l983.
"Hannah Arendt: Alienation and America," Raritan, Summer l983.
"Democratic Individuality and the Claims of Politics, Political Theory, August l984.
"Rigidities in the Study of Political Theory, in John Nelson, ed., Tradition, Interpretation, and Science.
"Individual Rights and Nuclear Weapons," Dissent, Spring, l986, pp. l6l-72.
"Response to Three Critics," Dissent, Summer, l986, pp. 364-66.
"Thinking About Human Extinction: Nietzsche and Heidegger," Raritan, Vol VI, no. 2, Fall, l987, pp. l-28.
"Thinking About Human Extinction: Emerson and Whitman," Raritan, Vol. VI, no. 3, Winter, l987, pp. l-22.
"Death and Politics: Hannah Arendt's Reflections on the American Constitution," Social Research, Vol. 54, no. 3, Autumn l987, pp. 605-6l6.
5 "Moral Dilemmas - An Introduction," Social Research, Vol. 55, no. 3, Autumn 1988, pp. 455-59.
"Democratic Individuality and the Meaning of Rights" in Nancy Rosenblum, ed., LIBERALISM AND THE MORAL LIFE (Harvard University Press, 1989).
"Hobbes and the Irrationality of Politics," Political Theory, August 1989.
"Individualism Communitarianism, and Docility," Social Research, Winter 1989.
"Walt Whitman the Culture of Democracy," Political Theory, November 1990.
"Exile, Alienation, and Estrangement," Social Research, vol. 58, Spring 1991.
"Notes on Pluralism," Social Research, Fall 1994.
"Arendt and Individualism," Social Research, Winter 1994.
"The Questionable Influence of Arendt (and Strauss)" in Kielmansegg, ed., Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss, (Cambridge, 1995).
"The Freedom of Worthless and Harmful Speech" in Liberalism Without Illusions, ed. Bernard Yack, University of Chicago Press, 1996.
“Brown and the Harm of Legal Segregation” in ed. Austin Sarat, Race, Law, and Culture, Oxford, 1997.
“Technology and Philosophy,” Social Research, Fall 1997.
Foreward, Judith N. Shklar, Political Thought and Political Thinkers. University of Chicago Press, 1998.
“The Value of Association” in Amy Gutmann, ed., Freedom of Association. Princeton University Press, 1998.
“Socratic Integrity” in Ian Shapiro and Robert Adams, eds., Integrity and Conscience. Nomos XL. New York University Press, 1998.
Reply to Robert Gooding-Williams, “Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy,” Constellations, 5: March 1998.
“Can Cultures Be Judged? Two Defenses of Cultural Pluralism in Isaiah Berlin’s Work” Social Research, vol. 66 no.4 Winter 1999.
“Aestheticism and Morality: Their Cooperation and Hostility,” Political Theory, vol. 28, no.1, Feb. 2000.
6 “Political Action: Its Nature and Advantages” in Dana Villa, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt.. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
“The Judgment of Arendt,” Revue Internationale de Philosophie, vol.53 no.208, Feb.1999.
“Oppenheim and the National Interest” in Ian Carter and M. Ricciardi, eds., Freedom, Power and Morality. Palgrave NY, 2001.
“Wolin as a Critic of Democracy” in A. Botwinick and W. Connolly, eds., Democracy and Vision: Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of the Political. Princeton University Press, 2001
“Is Patriotism a Mistake?” Social Research, Winter 2000.
“On Being Watched and Known,” Social Research, Spring 2001.
“The Adequacy of the Canon,” Political Theory, August 2002.
“Ideology and Storytelling,” Social Research, vol. 69, no. 2, Summer 2002
“Individuality and Egotism” in Bonnie Honig and David R. Mapel, eds, Skepticism, Individuality, and Freedom. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
“A Glance at Democratic Individuality,” Intellectual History Newsletter, vol. 24, 2002.
“A Response to Ober, Viroli, and Rabb” in Theodore Rabb and Ezra Suleiman, eds, The Making and Unmaking of Democracy. Routledge, 2003.
“Democratic Individualism and Its Critics,” Annual Review of Political Science, 2003.
“Undermining the Constitution”, Social Research, vol. 70, no.2, Summer 2003.
“Courage as a Virtue,” Social Research, vol. 71, no. 1, Spring 2004.
“A Life of Fear,” Social Research, vol. 71, no. 4, Winter 2004.
“The Idea of Individual Infinitude,” The Hedgehog Review, vol. 7, no. 2, Summer 2005.
“Is John Gray a Nihilist?,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 2, June 2006.
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Reviews and Review-Articles:
Of Victor Brombert, The Intellectual Hero in The Massachusetts Review, Winter, l962.
Of Felix Oppenheim, Dimensions of Freedom in Political Science Quarterly, December l962.
Of Richard Cox, Locke on War and Peace in Zeitschrift fuer Politik, July l963.
Of Robert Dahl, Modern Political Analysis, and Herbert Kaufman, Politics and Policies in State and Local Government in The New York Review of Books, November l4, l963.
Of Harold Lasswell and Arnold Rogow, Power, Corruption and Recititude, The New York Review of Books, January 9, l964.
Of Douglass Cater, Power in Washington and Jack Raymond, Power at the Pentagon, in The New York Review of Books, May 28, l964.
Of Robert MacIver, Power Transformed, The New York Review of Books, March 25, l965.
Of R.H. Tawney, The Radical Tradition, Commentary, November l964.
Of David Spitz, The Liberal Idea of Freedom, Commentary, January l965.
Of J.W. Fulbright, Old Myths and New Realities, Partisan Review, Spring l965.
Of Harry Jaffa, Equality and Liberty, Commentary, August l965.
Of Herman Kahn, On Escalation, Commentary, November l965.
Of Michael Harrington, The Accidental Century, Commentary, August l965.
Of Charles Nordhoff, The Communistic Societies of the United States, The Nation, September l9, l966.
Of Irving Howe, Steady Work, Book Week, October 2, l966.
Of Jeffrey Hart, The American Dissent, American Political Science Review, December l966.
Of Theodore Roszak (ed).), The Dissenting Academy, Commentary, May 1968.
Of George Lichtheim, The Concept of Ideology, The American Political
8 Science Review, June l968.
Of John G. Gunnell, Political Philosophy and Time, The American Political Science Review, December l968.
Of B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity, The Atlantic, October l97l.
Of Mortimer Adler, The Common Sense of Politics, American Political Science Review, June l972.
Of Robert Caro, The Power Broker, The American Scholar, Spring l975.
Of Richard Goodwin, The American Condition, American Political Science Review, June l976.
Of Isaiah Berlin, Vico and Herder, The American Scholar, Winter l976-77.
Of Melvin Lasky, Utopia and Revolution, Political Theory, August l977.
Of Judith Shklar, Freedom and Independence: A Study of Hegel's Phenomonology of Mind, American Political Science Review, March l978.
Of Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind, The American Scholar, Winter l978-79.
Of Barrington Moore, Injustice, Yale Law Journal, April l979.
Of George Steiner, Martin Heidegger, The New Republic, May l2, l979.
Of Norman Jacobson, Pride and Solace, Political Theory, August l979.
Of Barbara Goodwin, Social Science and Utopia, APSR, September l979.
Of John H. Schaar, Legitimacy in the Modern State, Democracy, July l982.
Of Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, The American Scholar, Summer l982.
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