Curriculum Vitae
Andrew Arato
310 Greenwich Street, 37L Born: August 22, 1944 New York, N.Y. 10013 USA Budapest, Hungary Phone: (212) 964-1752 U .S. Citizen
Education:
Ph.D. (History), University of Chicago, June, 1975 Dissertation Topic: "The Search for the Revolutionary Subject: The Philosophy and Social Theory of the Young Lukacs 1910-1923" Readers: Leonard Krieger, Gerhard Meyer, William H. McNeill
Major Fields: Marxist Thought; 20th Century Intellectual History; History of East Europe
M.A. (History), University of Chicago, June, 1968
M.A. Papers: "On the History and Theory of Newton's First Law" and "Erasmus and Luther on the Problem of Freedom"
Major Fields: History of Science; Renaissance and Reformation
J.W. Goethe University (Frankfurt): Dissertation research, Winter, 1969
Institute for Sociological Research, Hungarian Academy of Science, Spring, 1970, Dissertation research under the supervision of Dr. Agnes Heller, György Markus and Mihaly Vajda
B.A. (History) Queens College, CUNY, June, 1966
Languages: Hungarian, German, French and some reading knowledge of Russian
Honors: Fullbright Teaching Fellow in Montevideo, Urugay 1990 Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Starnberg, West Germany, 1980-1981 NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1978 NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship in Sociology (at Washington University), 1977 Foreign Area Fellowship (Soviet and Eastern European Program), 1969-1971 NDEA Title IV Fellowship, 1966-1969 Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Scholarship Megaro Prize in European History, Queens College, 1966 Phi Beta Kappa, 1966
Teaching Experience:
Fall 1998 to Present- Dorothy Hirshon Professor in Political and Social Theory, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
Summer 2002 – Visiting Pofessor at the Belgrano University in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Spring 1994 - Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest
1989-1994 - Lecturer at the Cortona Summer School of the Institute on Human Sciences, Vienna
Spring 1989 and 1991 - Directeur d'études associé at the École des hautes études in Paris, France
Fall, 1989 - Spring 1998 Professor in Sociology, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research (July, 1985 - July, 1990: Department Chair)
Fall, 1984 - Fall, 1989 Associate Professor in Sociology, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
Fall, 1981 - Spring, 1984, Associate Professor in Sociology (part-time), Graduate Faculty,
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New School for Social Research
September, 1979 - Spring, 1984, Associate Professor in Philosophy and Social Theory, The Cooper Union, New York
January, 1974 - September, 1979, Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Social Theory, The Cooper Union
Fall, 1975; Spring, 1977; Fall, 1977; Spring, 1979; Fall, 1979; Spring, 1980: Lecturer, Department of Sociology, The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research
September, 1972 - 1974, Instructor in Philosophy and Social Theory, The Cooper Union, New York
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Invited Lectures:
SSRC-MacArthur Conference, Budapest, Panelist, May 1990
ACLS- Conference on Comparative Constitutionalism, Pécs, Participant, Hungary, June 1990
Institute for the Human Sciences, Vienna, Conference on Transition From Communism, Participant, June 1990
APSA- Annual Conference at San Francisco, Panelist, August 1990
Conference on the End of Communism, Columbia University, March 1990
Invited Lecture at the Institute for Sociology, Budapest University, March 1990
Conference on Central Europe: Past-Present-Future, Vienna, Ministry of Education, May 1991
Conference on Comparative Constitutionalism, Cardozo School of Law, October 1991
Conference on From Leninism to Freedom, Marquette University Institute of Democracy, October 1991
Conference on Nationalism and Democracy in Europe, Institut für Sozialforschung, Frankfurt/M, plenary speaker on "Revolution, Restoration and Democratic Innovation" April 1992
Spring 1992: four invited lectures in Warsaw, Budapest and Szombathely
May 1992: Participant in New School Democracy Conference, near Sofia
September 1992: Participant at the conference of the Pluralism subcommittee of the APSA, at UCLA
October 1992: Participant at the Institute for the Humanities Conference, University of Michigan: "Utopian Visions"
November 1992: Participant at the Conference of the "Free Trade Union Institute" in Warsaw: "The Role of Trade Unions in the Economic Transitions"
May 1993: Participant at the Conference on the Media at the Law Faculty, Central European University, Budapest 4 Andrew Arato - Vitae 5
August 1993: Participant on two panels of the ASA conference, Miami, Florida
November 1993: Participant at the Conference of Constitutions and Constitutionalism, Bratislava, Slovakia
January 1994: Participant at the ACLS workshop on Constitution Making, Budapest
March 1994: Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna: Lecture on Constitution Making in Hungary
November 1994: Lecture at the annual conference of ANPOCS at Caxambu, Brazil (as well as lectures in Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo)
January 1995: Lectures at Catholic University, Lima, Peru
March 1995: Lecture at Conference at the Maison des scences de l'homme, Paris
Spring 1996: Lecture at Conference, Center for European Studies, Harvard
Spring 1996 and Fall 1996: Lectures at the Colegio de Mexico
Spring 1997: Lecture at Conference at UNAM, Mexico City
Spring 1997: invited guest and lecturer at the conference, Hungary 2000
Spring 1997: Lectured at Columbia University Conference on Citizenship and Democracy
Spring 1998: Invited Guest and Lecturer at conference, "At the Threshold of the Millenium" Lima, Peru
Spring 1998: Lecturer at conference in legal studies, Onati, Spain
Spring 1999: Participant in SSRC seminar, Moscow, Russia
Spring 1999: Conference on the Two Bonapartes, Hunter College, New York
Spring 1999: Participant in Conference on Carl Schmitt, Columbia University
Fall 2000: Participant in Conference on Cornelius Castoriadis, Columbia University
Fall 2001: Participant in Conference on Sovereignty, in Denmark 5 Andrew Arato - Vitae 6
Other 2001-2002 conferences not listed
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Publications (books):
Co-editor, THE ESSENTIAL FRANKFURT SCHOOL READER (Urizen Press and Basil Blackwell: New York, 1978) [including two articles on Sociology of Culture and Sociology of Politics]
Co-author, THE YOUNG LUKACS AND THE ORIGINS OF WESTERN MARXISM (Seabury Press: New York, 1979)
Co-editor GORRBACHEV: THE DEBATE, Polity Press, 1989
Co-editor CRISIS AND REFORM IN EASTERN EUROPE, Transaction Books, 1991
Co-author (with Jean Cohen) CIVIL SOCIETY AND POLITICAL THEORY, MIT Press, 1992
Author, FROM NEO-MARXISM TO DEMOCRATIC THEORY: ESSAYS, M.E. Sharpe Publishers, 1993 co-editor HABERMAS ON LAW AND DEMOCRACY: CRITICAL EXCHANGES UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS 1998
Author CIVIL tARSADALOM, FORRADALOM es ALKOTMANY Mandatum Press, Budapest, 1999
Author, CIVIL SOCIETY, CONSTITUTION AND LEGITIMACY: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999
In preparation: Good-bye to Dictatorships?
In preparation with Jean Cohen: The Separation of Powers and Polpular Sovereignty
Publications (Selected Articles):
"Marxism," in THE NEW PALGRAVE (London 1988)
Co-author "Politics and the Reconstruction of Civil Society" in Zwischenbetrachtungen im Prozess der Aufklärung, a Festschrift for J. Habermas, Frankfurt and Cambridge 1989
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"Civil Sociey, Authoritarian Socialism, and Social Theory" in Feher and Arato Crisis and Reform, Transaction Books 1991
"Introduction" to Gorbachev. The Debate op. cit.
"Facing Russia: Castoriadis and the Problem of the Soviet Union" in European Journal of Social Science (Geneva,1991)
"Revolution, Civil Society and the Problem of Democracy" 1991 in The Reemergence of Civil Society in Eastern Europe and The Soviet Union Westview Press 1991;also in: Transit (in German); Mozgó Világ (in Hungarian); in Problemi del socialismo (in Italian)
"Social Movements and Civil Society in the Soviet Union" in Perestroika from Below, Westview Press, 1991
"Interpreting 1989" In Social Research Fall 1993 (also in Hungarian in Buksz)
"Civil Society in the Emerging Democracies: Poland and Hungary" in From Leninism to Freedom, 1992 Westview Press (also in Hungarian in the second issue of the Journal of Politics of the Hungarian PSA Politikatudományi Szemle)
"Dilemmas Arising from the Power to Create Constitutions in East Europe" in Cardozo Law Review Fall 1992 now in: M. Rosenfeld ed. Constitutionalism, Identityt, Difference and Legitimacy (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1994)
"Revolution, Restoration and Legitimation: Ideological Problems of the Transition from State Socialism" in M.Kennedy ed. Envisioning Eastern Europe (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1994 Also in Hungarian in Politikatudományi Szemle, Spring 1994)
"Constitution and Continuity in the Transitions" in two parts, in Constellations (1994) v. I issues 1 and 2 Also in abbreviated Hungarian version in Vilagossag, and shortened German version in Transit.
"Election, Coalition, and Constitution in Hungary" in East European Constitutional Review (Chicago, Summer-Fall 1994) as well as longer version in Hungarian Quarterly (Fall 1994)
"Rendszerváltás, közjogi szerkezet és alkotmányozás" in Mozgó világ (Budapest, 1994) # 10
two articles in EECR on constitution making in Hungary (trans: Beszelö)
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"Forms of Constitution Making and Theories of Democracy" in Cardozo Law Review December 1995
"Aprendizaje constitucional" [Constitutional Learning] in Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Politicas y Sociales #168 (1998)
"Slouching Toward Philadelphia" Constellations
"Impeachment or Revision of the Constitution" Constellations Summer 1999
“The New Democracies and U.S. Institutional Design” Constellations Fall 2000
“Good by to Dictatorships” in Social Research Winter 2000
“Dictatorship Before and After Totalitarianism” in Social Research Summer 2002
“Kiralyvalasztas” [Elwection of a king] in Elet es Irodalom October 2000
Plus Articles on the Impeachment Crisis, the Election of 2000, September 11, and Military Tribunals in Constellations
Manuscript (co-authored): “Constitution Making in Hungary: 1990-1997”
Publications (newspapers):
20 articles on the Hungarian national elections, spring 1994, in Magyar Narancs; Népszabadság; and Magyar Hirlap articles on U.S. elections, on Hung politics, on Clinton Crisis
Publications (edited texts):
"Issues in the Marxian Theory of History," issue of INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, with articles by Markus, Lepenies, Spring, 1974
"Marx Today," special issue of SOCIAL RESEARCH with articles by Lefort, Castoriadis, Heller, Vajda, Cohen and Postone, Winter, 1978
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"Walter Benjamin and the Sociology of Art," issue of the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, with articles by Radnoti, Paetzoldt, Spring, 1977
Editor of special issue of TELOS: "Poland and the Future of Socialism," no. 47, Spring, 1981
Co-editor of special issue of SOCIAL RESEARCH: "Problems of Democracy," no. 50, Winter, 1983
Other:
Editor, Constellations: an International Journal in Critical and Democratic Theory from 1994 – present
Member of working group at the U.S. Peace Institute “On Constitution Making, Democracy and Conflict Resolution” 2000- Present
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