Patchen Markell

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Patchen Markell (born August 30, 1969) is an associate professor of political science at Cornell University. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 1999 and a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from University of California, Berkeley in 1992.[1]

His research interests include a range of issues in contemporary social and political theory. He has written and taught on subjects such as action and responsibility, agency, theories of democracy, gender and sexuality, and the role of affect in politics, as well as on figures such as Hegel, Marx, Hannah Arendt, Habermas, and Aristotle.[2] In 2003, Princeton University Press published his Bound by Recognition,[3] a critical engagement with the politics of recognition, which was awarded the American Political Science Association's Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award.[citation needed] He is currently working on the first book-length study of Arendt's The Human Condition, which builds on some of his prior writings on her work.[4][5]

Markell previously taught at the University of Chicago and served as the co-director of the University of Chicago Political Theory Workshop. He is currently an Editorial Council member of Constellations, and a member of the Editorial Collective of Public Culture.[6]

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  1. ^ "Patchen Markell, Department of Government Cornell Arts & Sciences". government.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  2. ^ Markell, Patchen (February 2000). "Making Affect Safe for Democracy?: On "Constitutional Patriotism"". Political Theory. 28 (1): 38–63. doi:10.1177/0090591700028001003. ISSN 0090-5917. S2CID 144566468.
  3. ^ Markell, Patchen (2003). Bound by recognition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-2587-5. OCLC 496287752.
  4. ^ Markell, Patchen (2011). "Arendt's Work: On the Architecture of "The Human Condition"". College Literature. 38 (1): 15–44. ISSN 0093-3139. JSTOR 27917782.
  5. ^ Markell, Patchen (February 2006). "The Rule of the People: Arendt, Archê, and Democracy". American Political Science Review. 100 (1): 1–14. doi:10.1017/S000305540606196X. ISSN 1537-5943. S2CID 54999000.
  6. ^ "Patchen Markell". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2011.