Degrees

• Ph.D. Department of Government, Harvard University, 1982
• M.A Department of Political Science, McGill University, 1978
• B.A Department of Political Science, McGill University, 1975

Research Area

• Political Philosophy

Previous Positions

• Professor, Vanderbilt University, 1996-
• Professor, McGill University, 1995-1996
• Associate Professor, McGill University, 1990-1995
• Assistant Professor, McGill University, 1988-1990
• Assistant Professor, Duke University, 1985-1988
• Department of External Affairs. Middle Eastern Bureau, Soviet and Eastern Europe Bureau.

Selected Publications

• BOOKS:
• Communities of Memory (Cornell University Press, 2006)
• Households. On the Moral Architecture of the Economy. (Cornell University Press, 1993).
• Rationality and Politics. With Patrick James and Hudson Meadwell. (Cambridge University Press, 1993). Co-editor, Co-author of the Introduction, Contributor.
• Kant and Political Philosophy: The Contemporary Legacy. With Ronald S. Beiner. (Yale University Press, 1993). Co-editor, Co-author of the Introduction, Contributor.
• Interpreting the World. A Study of Kant's Philosophy of History and Politics (University of Toronto Press, 1986).
• ARTICLES:
• “The Color of Memory: Reading Race with Ralph Ellison.” Political Theory (forthcoming, 2008)
• “The Work of Memory: Time, Identity, and Justice.” Social Research 75(Spring 2008): 237-262.
• “The Unforgotten. Memories of Justice.” American Political Science Review 95(2001): 777-791.
• “Communities of Memory: On Identity, Memory and Debt.” American Political Science Review 93(1999):249–263.
• “Foreigners: Insiders, Outsiders and the Ethics of Membership.” Review of Politics 59(1997):259-292
• “Marx after 1989. A Review Essay.” Political Theory 23(1995):527-541
• “Pandora's Jar: Scarcity and the standard of living in classical Greek economic theory.” Archives européennes de sociologie 35(1994):173-198
• “On the Idea of the Moral Economy.” American Political Science Review 88(1994):653-667
• “Household and Market. On the Origins of Moral Economic Philosophy.” Review of Politics 56(1994):207-235
• “A Note on the Idea of the Moral Economy.” American Political Science Review 87 (1993):949-954.
• “Rejoinder to Tierney”. Political Theory 19 (1991):656-661. [This is an exchange over my “Economies of Time” article in Political Theory].
• “The New Household Economy”. American Political Science Review 85 (1991):59-75.
• “Economies of Time. On the Idea of Time in Marx's Political Economy.” Political Theory 19 (1991):7-27.
• “Explaining Capitalism. The Method of Marx's Political Economy.” Political Studies 37 (1989):612-625.
• “Gone Fishing. Making Sense of Marx's Concept of Communism.” Political Theory 17 (1989):205-222. [Reprinted in Scott Meikle, ed. Marx in The International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2000]
• “Reason and History: Kant's Other Copernican Revolution”. Kant-Studien 74 (1983):56-71.
• “Politics and the Household: A Commentary on Aristotle's Politics, Book One”. The History of Political Thought 2 (1981):203-226.
• BOOK CHAPTERS:
• “What is the relationship between ethics and remembrance?” in Helmut Walser Smith, ed. The Holocaust and Other Genocides. (Vanderbilt University Press, 2002).
• “Communities of Memory” in Wayne Norman and Ronald S. Beiner, eds. Canadian Political Philosophy at the Turn of the Century: Exemplary Essays (Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 263-281.
• “The Limits of Autonomy” in Kant and Political Philosophy: The Contemporary Legacy (Yale University Press, 1993), pp.245-275.
• “Introduction” (with Ronald S. Beiner) to Kant and Political Philosophy: The Contemporary Legacy. (Yale University Press, 1993), pp.1-6.
• “Introduction” (with Patrick James and Hudson Meadwell) to Rationality and Politics. (Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp.1-7.
• “Marx's Two Logics of Capitalism” in Rationality and Politics. (Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp.61-85.
• “Households, Markets and Firms”. In George McCarthy, ed. Marx and Aristotle: Nineteenth-Century German Social Theory and Classical Antiquity (Rowman & Littlefield, 1992), pp.243-271 .
• “Gone Fishing. Making Sense of Marx's Concept of Communism.” In Joseph Losco and Leonard Williams, eds. Political Theory: Classical Writings, Contemporary Views. (St. Martin's Press, 1992), pp.496-507.
• “Gulliver and the Lilliputians. Conservatism, Foreign Policy and Alliance Relations” in Resurgence of Conservatism in Anglo-American Democracies. (Duke University Press, 1988), pp.137-162.