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Department Talk on October 26


The Department of Political Science presents

Bryan Garsten

Professor of Political Science and the Humanities Chair of the Humanities Program, Yale University

How Do Democracies Die?

 

Thursday, October 26th, 2017

4:15-5:45 pm

Henry F. Hall Building, room 1220

(1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West)

 

All students and faculty are welcome

Sponsored by the Reading Lab in Political Theory

For more information, contact travis.smith@concordia.ca

Bryan Garsten is Professor of Political Science and the Humanities, and Chair of the Humanities Program. He is the author of Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (Harvard University Press, 2006) as well as articles on political rhetoric and deliberation, the meaning of representative government, the relationship of politics and religion, and the place of emotions in political life. Garsten is now finishing a book called The Heart of a Heartless World that examines the ethical, political and religious core of early nineteenth century liberalism in the United States and France. He has also edited Rousseau, the Enlightenment, and Their Legacies, a collection of essays by the Rousseau scholar Robert Wokler (Princeton University Press, 2012). His writings have won various awards, including the First Book Prize of the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association.

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concordia.ca/artsci/polisci.html

 




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