Chicago thinkers: Jean Bethke Elshtain
I forget we have people in Chicago who think and write about politics at this level,
I saw her book on Jane Adams at Borders and it's on my list to read.from the University of Chicago Chronicle
For the fourth time—more often than at any other college or university—a Divinity School faculty member has been chosen to deliver the Gifford Lectures, one of the most prestigious theological honors in the world. Jean Bethke Elshtain, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School, will deliver the 2005-2006 Gifford Lectures in Scotland, an honor previously bestowed on such intellectual luminaries as William James, Albert Schweitzer and John Dewey.
thanks to Norman Geras at Normsblog
2 comments:
I really admire her work. It's thoughtful and incisive yet accessible, and I wish I could write that well.
One of the goals she has as a political theorist is to get beyond the academic bubble and use her writing to expand the set of categories that ordinary people have to talk about politics (at least, I think that's a fair summary of an answer she gave once in a Q&A session).
It would be interesting to explore what kind of contribution she could make to the way we Illinoisans talk about politics (particularly given the venom that is already flowing from both sides of the aisle).
Or maybe that's just the wishful thinking of an escapee from academia. :-)
No, I'm Grinnell College class of 1976 and then DePaul 1979.
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