This page contains information about my past, present, and future University of Chicago courses. Syllabi and other documents are in PDF format. Syllabi for upcoming courses will be posted as soon as they're available.

About admission to courses: I don't decide whom to admit to a restricted-enrollment, instructor-consent-required course until on or after the first session. If you're interested in such a course, please simply come on the first day. If you have questions about a course that aren't answered by the description or the syllabus, feel free to contact me by email.

> In 2011-2012 I am currently slated to teach "Self, Culture, and Society" in the Fall (Core), a grad seminar called "Power, Action, and Rule in Democratic Theory" in the Fall, a combined undergrad and grad seminar on Arendt and Heidegger in the Spring, and a grad seminar whose topic has not yet been decided either in the Winter or the Spring, possibly on "Critiques of Capitalism," possibly on "Cold War Political Theory."

> Political Science 24500/34500 and Fundamentals 22212, "Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition" [Spring 2011 syllabus]

> Social Sciences 153, "Classics of Social and Political Thought" [Spring 2009]

> Social Sciences 151, "Classics of Social and Political Thought, I." [Fall 2009 syllabus]

> Social Sciences 153, "Classics of Social and Political Thought, III." [Spring 2007 syllabus]

> Political Science 206, "Action and Responsibility." [Winter 2001 syllabus]

> Political Science 240/440, "Hegel and Marx." [Winter 2004 syllabus]  [selected further reading]

> Political Science 241, "Democracy and its Critics in the 19th Century." [Winter 2003 syllabus]

> Political Science 24500/34500 and Fundamentals 22212, "Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition" [Winter 2009 syllabus]

> Political Science 24520/34520, "Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition." [Winter 2006 syllabus]

> Political Science 24501/34501 and Fundamentals 21407, "The Political Thought of Jürgen Habermas." [Fall 2009 syllabus]

> Political Science 345, "Marx's Capital" (with Bill Sewell). [Winter 2001 syllabus]

> Political Science 346, "Theories of Agency: Hannah Arendt." [Spring 2003 syllabus]

> Political Science 423, "Democratic Theory." [Spring 2000 syllabus] [Spring 2006 syllabus]

> Political Science 424, “Politics, Art, and Aesthetics” [Winter 2007 syllabus]

> Political Science 439, "Language, Politics, and Political Theory." [Winter 2006 syllabus]

> Political Science 44200, "Cold War Political Theory" [Spring 2009 syllabus]

> Political Science 461, "20th Century Hegelianisms." [Winter 2004 syllabus]

> Political Science 462, "Contemporary Theories of Agency." [Spring 2004 syllabus]