Current Positions

2003

Maître de conférences, Université de Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle [Tenured position]

2012

Membre associé, Centre d’étude des normes juridiques, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

2013

Departmental Guest, Department of French & Italian, Princeton

2012

Huffington Post blogger

2014

Director, Civic Observer (joint project w/Huffington Post)

Education

PhD

Politics & Program in Political Philosophy, Princeton University

BA

Political Science & Musical Com position (double major), Williams College

Musical Studies at New England Conservatory, Brandeis University, U. Massachusetts, Amherst

Previous Appointments

2012

Visiting Professor of Sociology, Princeton

2010-11

Visiting Fellow, Department of History, Princeton

2009-13

Senior Fellow & Director Rhetoric and Public Knowledge project, Institute for Public Knowledge, NYU

2008-9

Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Princeton

2007-8

Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies

2005-6

Visiting Professor of Politics & European Cultural Studies, Princeton

2003-5

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris)

2003-5

Research Associate, Center for the Theory of L aw, Université de Paris X – Nanterre

2000-3

Maître de conférences (tenured), Université de Lille III

1999

Visiting Professor, School of L aw, Université de Paris II

1999

Directeur d'études associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)

1998

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Università degli Studi di Roma (La Sapienza)

...and more than a dozen other posts in France, Italy, and the U.S. (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Union College; and Lecturer in American Politics, Williams College)

Editorial

Member of board at Sociological Theory
Review for Journal of Politics, Philosophy & Rhetoric, Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Sociological Theory, Philosophical Forum, Law & Society Review, Academic Press, Cornell University Press, Stanford University Press, University of C hicago Press, Yale University Press, etc.

Selected Fellowships, Grants, & Honors

2010-11

National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship

2009

Foreign Scholar Grant, American Political Science Association

2008

Warner Fund Award for Civic War, Columbia University Faculty Seminars

2004-5

Winner, renewal of délégation au CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

2003-4

Winner, national competition for research leave (délégation au CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

2000

Fellowships from Maison des Sciences de l’Homme

2000

Foreign Scholar Grant, American Political Science Association

1999

Elected Directeur d’Etudes associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

1999

Fellowship for Foreign Scholars, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (new competition)

1998

Fellowship for Foreign Scholars, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique

1995

Research support from Maison Suger, P aris

1995

Elected Directeur d’Etudes associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

1995

Fellowships from Maison des Sciences de l’Homme

1993

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar

...and 17 other similar items.

Representative Publications

BOOKS

Abandoned to Ourselves: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Origins of Sociological Common Sense in the 18th Century

Yale University Press, 2013, (576 pp.)

Civic War and The Corruption of the Citizen: Democracy in America After 9/11, Part One, University of Chicago Press, 2008 (368 pp)

The Position of the Citizen: Democracy in America After 9/11, Part Two, Forthcoming from U. C hicago Press (c. 300 pp.)

Political Pathologies of the Citizen: Democracy in America After 9/11, Part Three, Forthcoming U. Chicago Press (c. 260 pp.)

BOOK UNDER CONTRACT

Left Speechless: America in the Light of its Holocaust Museum, ADVANCE CONTRACT SIGNED W/CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (C. 500 PP .)

BOOKS UNDER REVIEW

[3 books related to Rudolf Schay project, funded by NEH] “Why Do They Hate The Jews?”: A Lost Political Treatise from the Struggle Against Hitler (review at Polity Press); Degrees of Anonymity: The Story of Rudolf Schay and the Way Politics Is Written (review at Polity Press), and From Pity to Politics: Eleventh-Hour Appeals to America to Save the Jews of Europe, 1938-1941 (under consideration at Palgrave).

Rhetoric as a Mode of Political Inquiry (edited collection under consideration at Yale UP)

PRINT-ON-DEMAND MONOGRAPH (PHD DISSERTATION)

A Theory of Power: Political, Not Metaphysical, (Ann Arbor: UM I, 1989) 558 pp.

TEACHING MANUALS

The New Rule of Reason: European Philosophy and Society in the Seventeenth Century, reader edited with Michael Andolina and Ed D'Angelo (Acton: Copley Publishing, 1993)

The American Dream: Many Voices, Many Visions, Reader edited with Michael Kiskis and Richard Leveroni (Acton: Copley Publishing, 1993)

ARTICLES & CHAPTERS

“The Tradition of the Social Contract” in Harald Bluhm & Constanze Baron (eds) Rousseau, Reluctant Institutionalist (Academy Verlag, forthcoming)

“Will” in Michael T. Gibbons (ed.) Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming) [10 ,000 words]

“Dependence” in Michael T. Gibbons (ed.) Encyclopedia of Political Thought (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming) [1000 words]

“Rousseau and Rhetoric” in Dilip Goankar & Keith Topper (eds) Possibility and Paradox: On Rhetoric and Political Theory (forthcoming, Cambridge UP, 50 p.)

“Eduard Steichen et le photographe volumétrique” in Pleine Marge (accepted for publication; awaiting translation) 25 pp.

“Change in Another Decade of Civic War” at 10 Years After September 11: A Social Science Research Council Essay Forum http://essays.ssrc.org/10yearsafter911/change-in-another-decade-of-civic-war

“Politics of Past and Present” [response to Furedi] in Times Higher Education, March 19, 2009, 1 p.

“Esquisse sur la modernisation de la rhétorique comme enquête politique” in Littérature, No.149, mars 2008, pp. 4-23

Review of Musical Democracy (Nancy.S.Love) in Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 5, No.3, 2007, pp. 613-615

“Rhetorical Inquiry and Political Science” in Proceedings: Political Research Online (APSA , 2007)

“Speaking Truth To Ourselves: Lukács, `False Consciousness’ and a Dilemma of Identity Politics in Democracy” in International Review of Sociology, vol. XV I, no.3 (2006), pp. 549-589

“Political Science and the Theory of Power” in Proceedings: Political Research Online at http://64.112.226.77/one /apsa/apsa06/inde x.php?click_ke y=6

“The Circle of War and Emergency” in Proceedings: Political Research Online at

“Language and Public Life” in Proceedings: Political Research Online at http://apsaproceedings.cup.org/Site/abstracts/001/001035M eyersPete.htm

“Method and Civic Education”in Humanitas, vol. XV I, no. 2 (2003) pp. 4-47

“Terrorism and the Assault on Politics” in Craig Calhoun, Paul Price, & Ashley Timmer (eds) Understanding September 11 (New York: The New Press, 2002) pp. 254-272, 413-419

“Le `musée vivant’ raconte sa propre histoire: une première lecture de l’United States Holocaust Memorial Museum” in Cités, no 11 (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2002) pp. 159-183

“The Holocaust in American Life?” in European Journal of Social Theory, vol. 5 no.1, (2002) pp.149-164

“Defend Politics Against Terrorism” in After Sept.11: Perspectives from the Social Sciences at www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/meyers.htm (Includes extensive study guide for high school and college students, at www.ssrc.org/sept11/essays/teaching_resource/tr_intro.htm )

“En defensa de la Politica contra el Terrorismo” [Spanish translation of above] in Sitio Web Orientado al Desarrollo de las Ciencias Sociales en el Perú at www.cholonautas.edu.pe/11sept.htm

“Photographic Memory” [review of Barbie Zelizer Remembering to Forget] in Re-Thinking History, vol. 4 no. 3 (2000), pp. 427-432

“Notes on Now: Benjamin’s Vico and Vico’s Benjamin” in F. Ratto (ed.) Il mondo di Vico/Vico nel mondo (Perugia, 2000) pp. 383-408

“Oui, la vie est belle” in Le Monde, “Horizons et débats”, samedi 31 octobre 1998, p. 14

“The `Ethic of Care' and the Problem of Power” in The Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 6 no. 2, (1998) pp. 142-170

“On the geometry of body-space” in International Review of Sociology, Vol.6 no. 3 (1996) pp.405-428

“I due percorsi dello sviluppo morale: una svolta nel cammino del femminismo?” in Iride: filosofia e discussione pubblica 8 (primavera, 1992) pp. 164-179

“Why should I talk to you? How connaissance réciproque may be served by free public talk” in Actes du congrès “Connaissance réciproque,” Canton, China (published in Chinese, 1992)

“Politics with Pictures” in J. S. Burns (ed.) Critical Relations (Williamstown: Highgate Art Trust, 1990) pp.105-147

“Who cares if you understand me? The political element in connaissance réciproque” in Transcultura, vol.2 no.1, 1990 (Bruxelles: Artel)

“A `common market' called America: Constitution, Markets and Democracy” [w/ James MacGregor Burns] in Think (special Constitution issue, September 1987) pp. 12-15

HUFFINGTON POST ESSAYS

“SYRIA AND THE MEANING OF DEMOCRACY” SEPTEMBER 9, 2013 [2742 WORDS]

“WHY CAN'T WE SEE THAT BOSTON IS MORE LIKE NEW TOWN THAN 9/11?” APRIL 23, 2013 [1934 WORDS]

“WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN GUN CONTROL FAILS: AMERICA'S CINEMATIC CULTRE” APRIL 8, 2013 [3361 WORDS]

“ADAM LANZA’S GRIP ON REALITY: A CIVIC PERSPECTIVE” DECEMBER 27, 2012 [2245 WORDS]

“DECEPTION: AN ELECTION PRIMER” OCTOBER 18, 2012 [1586 WORDS]

“A GREEK FABLE, PART TWO: PAPANDREOU’S MISSED OPPORTUNITY” JUNE 12, 2012 [2132 WORDS]

“A GREEK FABLE, PART ONE: THE GLOBALIZATION OF OPPORTUNISM” JUNE 12, 2012 [2701 WORDS]

“WHO NEEDS A GREEK GOVERNMENT?” MAY 20, 2012 [2600 WORDS]

“THE GREEK OPPORTUNITY FOR EUROPE” MAY 10, 2012 [1100 WORDS]

OCCASIONAL COMMENTARY & WORKING PAPERS

....more than 18 on various subjects.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL TALKS & CONFERENCES PAPERS

....about 80 in the U.S., France, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, China, etc.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Princeton University Sociological Theory, After 9/11, The Position of the Citizen in America, Cultural Interpretation

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III History of Political Thought, American history, politics, and culture [deferred while on leave]

Université de Lille-III Courses on American Political Culture, Social Issues, & Justice, Cours Magistral “Chicago and the Development of Political Space”, Cours Magistral — “Topics in the History of Urban Planning”

Université de Paris-II Public Ethics, Problems in American Federalism, American Legal Pragmatism

Union College Department of Political Science: Introduction to Political Theory, Modern Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, American Political and Social Theory, Major Texts & Themes in Political & Social Theory, Democratic Theory, Political Culture of Constitutional Law, Rival Views of Market Society, Feminists Theorize the Political: Power, Responsibility, Knowledge, Modern Political Subjectivity, Special Seminar: Why the Working Class Buys Cadillacs — Rational Origins of `Irrational' Consumerism, Special Seminar: Rousseau, Special Seminar: Hegel, Special Seminar: Representations of Evil, Special Seminar: `Reality': A Cultural Precondition for Politics, Courses in Women's Studies: Feminists Theorize the Political (cross-listed with Pol. Sci.), Directed Individual Study in Feminist Theory, Courses in Philosophy: Directed Individual Study, Courses in General Education: Common core humanities course required for all first-year students, Supervision of more than 50 undergraduate theses (80-200pp.) in Political Science, Wom en's Studies, Economics, Philosophy, American Studies, Art History, and Sociology

Syracuse University, Program in Florence, Italy Democratic Political Theory, International Organizations in Context, International Political Economy

Williams College Politics and Democracy in the USA, Style in African-American Music – taught w/Charles Payne