Rhetoric, the Passions, and Difference in Discursive Democracy
Department of Political Science McGill University 855 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2T7
Seyla Benhabib (chair), Richard Tuck, Pratap Mehta
A critique of recent attempts in political philosophy to produce an account of democracy that is hospitable to difference and to the affective dimensions of community...
Associate Professor, McGill University, Department of Political Science (Current)
*2001, “Banishing the Particular: Rousseau on Rhetoric, Patrie, and the Passions.” Political Theory 29.4: 556–582.
*2001, “Ethnicity, Race, and a Possible Humanity.” World Order 33.1: 23–34.
*2002, “Amnesia, Obsession, Cinematic U-Turns: On Mulholland Drive.” Senses of Cinema 19. (Co-authored with Kirsten Ostherr.)
*2002, “Does Liberal Democracy Presuppose a Cultural Nation? Four Arguments.” American Political Science Review 96.3: 495-509.
*2004, “Historical Truth, National Myths, and Liberal Democracy: On the Coherence of Liberal Nationalism.” The Journal of Political Philosophy 12.3: 291–313.
*2005, “Does Collective Identity Presuppose an Other? On the Alleged Incoherence of Global Solidarity.” American Political Science Review 99.1: 45–60.
*2005, “Democratic Elections without Campaigns? Normative Foundations of National Baha’i Elections.” World Order 37.1: 7–49.
*2008, “Democratic Theory and Border Coercion: No Right to Unilaterally Control Your Own Borders.” Political Theory 36.1: 37-65.
*2011, “Hobbes on the Causes of War: A Disagreement Theory.” American Political Science Review 105.2: 298-315.
*2012, “On the Demos and its Kin: Nationalism, Democracy, and the Boundary Problem.” American Political Science Review 106.4: 867-882.
*2013, “Publicity, Privacy, and Religious Toleration in Hobbes’s Leviathan.” Modern Intellectual History 10.2: 261-291.
*2002, APSA Leo Strauss Award for Best Dissertation in Political Philosophy
*2002, Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Research Apprenticeship Grant
*2002, Wesleyan Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship
*2003, Harvard’s Toppan Prize for Best Dissertation in Political Science
*2005-2009, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Standard Research Grant, “Rousseau’s Melodious Politics: Language, Rhetoric, and the Anti-Democratic Impulse”
*2007-2008, Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
*2013-2016, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant, “The Oscillations of Thomas Hobbes: Between Insight and the Will”