Jan-Werner Müller

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Jan-Werner Müller is a German political philosopher and historian of political ideas working at Princeton University.[1]

Jan-Werner Müller
Born1970
OccupationAcademic
Academic background
Alma materFree University of Berlin, University of Oxford, Princeton University
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science
Sub-disciplineHistory of political ideas, Political theory
InstitutionsPrinceton University (since 2005)

Biography[edit]

Born in Bad Honnef in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany in 1970, Jan-Werner Müller studied at Free University of Berlin, University College London, the University of Oxford's St Antony’s College and Princeton University. He was Fellow of All Souls College in Oxford from 1996 to 2003 and a Fellow of St Antony’s College's European Studies Centre from 2003 to 2005. He has taught political theory and the history of political ideas at Princeton since 2005.[1]

Müller has been invited scholar at Collegium Budapest – Institute of Advanced Study [de; hu], at the Remarque Institute of New York University, at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University as well as the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute in Florence. He has also been invited professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

He is a co-founder of the European College of Liberal Arts in Berlin.[1]

He regularly writes opinion pieces for mainstream publications, such as The Guardian,[2] Neue Zürcher Zeitung,[3][4][5][6][7] The New York Times,[8][9] Süddeutsche Zeitung,[10][11] Le Monde,[12][13][14] Project Syndicate,[15] The New York Review of Books,[16] The London Review of Books,[17] and more specialised publications such as Foreign Affairs,[18] Social Europe[19] and Verfassungsblog.[20]

Works[edit]

  • Another Country. German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2000, ISBN 978-0-300-08388-0.
  • A Dangerous Mind. Carl Schmitt in Post War European Thought. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2003, ISBN 978-0-300-09932-4.
  • As editor: Memory and Power in Post War Europe. Studies in the Presence of the Past. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002, ISBN 978-0-521-80610-7.
  • As editor: German Ideologies since 1945. Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic. Palgrave Macmillan, New York City, New York, 2003, ISBN 978-0-312-29579-0.
  • Constitutional Patriotism. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2007, ISBN 978-0-691-11859-8
  • Contesting Democracy. Political Ideas in Twentieth Century Europe. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2011, ISBN 978-0-300-19412-8
  • Wo Europa endet. Ungarn, Brüssel und das Schicksal der liberalen Demokratie. Suhrkamp, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-06197-8
  • What is populism ? University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2016, ISBN 978-0-8122-4898-2
  • Democracy Rules. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York City, New York, 2021, ISBN 9780374136475

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Jan-Werner Mueller | Princeton Politics". politics.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  2. ^ "Jan-Werner Müller | The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  3. ^ Müller, Jan-Werner (2008-02-28). "Konservativer Grandseigneur | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  4. ^ Müller, Jan-Werner (2019-06-13). "Gefährlich am Populismus sind seine Steigbügelhalter in der Mitte". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  5. ^ Müller, Jan-Werner (2012-03-16). "Liberaler Populismus? | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  6. ^ Müller, Jan-Werner (2017-06-28). "Wie Populisten gewinnen, wenn sie verlieren | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  7. ^ Müller, Jan-Werner (2017-08-26). "Was hält Demokratien zusammen? | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in Swiss High German). ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  8. ^ Müller, Jan-Werner (2018-04-05). "Opinion | 'Democracy' Still Matters". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  9. ^ Müller, Jan-Werner (2019-05-08). "Opinion | Populists Don't Lose Elections". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  10. ^ Zeitung, Süddeutsche (28 July 2019). "Falsche Rücksicht". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  11. ^ Zeitung, Süddeutsche (26 August 2019). "Von der Furcht zum Kampfgeist". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  12. ^ "Défendons le pluralisme !" (in French). 2012-02-09. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  13. ^ "Trump est le seul candidat qui menace la démocratie" (in French). 2016-02-29. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  14. ^ "Autriche : " Face au populisme, il faut maintenir un cordon sanitaire "" (in French). 2016-05-23. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  15. ^ "Jan-Werner Mueller". Project Syndicate. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  16. ^ "Jan-Werner Müller". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  17. ^ "Jan-Werner Müller - LRB". London Review of Books. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  18. ^ "Jan-Werner Müller". Foreign Affairs. 2019-02-05. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  19. ^ "Jan-Werner Müller, author at Social Europe". Social Europe. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  20. ^ "Jan-Werner Müller | Verfassungsblog" (in German). Retrieved 2020-01-09.

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