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The Department of Government and Politics

The Department of Government & Politics
University of Maryland  
3140 Tydings Hall

College Park, MD 20742


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  • Ph. D., University of California-Berkeley, 1970
  • M.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1964
  • B.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1961

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  • Political theory and philosophy, political psychology. Current research includes a study of Jewish political and spiritual resistance during the Holocaust. Future research projects include a study of the psychological preconditions for engagement with civil society; also will be looking at psychological impediments to civil engagement. What are the psychologcal factors that endanger civic attachment? How can they be formulated in the context of modern theories of civil society?

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  • GVPT 341: Political Action and Political Morality
  • GVPT241: An introduction to Political Theory
  • GVPT 241: (winterterm): Introduction to Political Theory
  • GVPT 399A: (summer): Politics and Film
  • GVPT 388A: Directed readings in conjunction with GVPT 399A ( summer only)
  • GVPT 443: Contemporary Political Theory
  • GVPT 442: Modern Political Theory

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(Selected List)

  • Delusion, University of Chicago Press
  • Private Terror/Public Life , Cornell University Press
  • Shattered Selves, Cornell University Press
  • Psychosis and Power, Cornell University Press
  • "Life Unworthy of Life": Mass Murder in Hitler's Germany, Basic Books
  • "Two Models of Political Organization: Collaboration or Resistance", American Behavioral Scientists, l999

 


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