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Political Philosophy
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995
Bio:
Professor Norris is the author of Becoming Who We Are: Politics and Practical
Philosophy in the Work of Stanley Cavell (Oxford University Press, 2017) and about sixty
articles. His work has been translated into French and German, and he has presented it in
invited public lectures at universities in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,
the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States.
He is the editor of three books: Truth and Democracy (University of Pennsylvania Press,
2012), with Jeremy Elkins; The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell and
Political Philosophy (Stanford University Press, 2006); and, Politics, Metaphysics, and
Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer (Duke University Press, 2005). He
has been awarded fellowships from, among others, the Max-Planck-Institut für
europäische Rechtsgeschichte; Dartmouth College; the Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst; and, the Exzellenzcluster “Normative Orders” and Forschungskolleg
Humanwissenschaften of Goethe Universität. Recent graduate courses include seminars
on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit; Pragmatism; Nietzsche; Hegel’s Philosophy of
Right; and, Critical Theory. He is an affiliated faculty member of the Department of
Philosophy and the Department of Religious Studies. In 2023/2024 he was Senior Fellow
at the Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy at Potsdam Universität; in the spring of 2024
he was Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Publications:
Recent publications include:
“On the First Person: Kierkegaard/Cavell,” Stanley Cavell and Value Theory (forthcoming, Bloomsbury)
“Democracy Between Form and Content,” Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 36, no. 1-2 (2024): 69-91
“Resistances of the Will Must be Overcome: Wittgenstein on the Difficulty of Philosophy,” Wittgensteinian Exercises: Aesthetic and Ethical Transformations (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2023)
“Dewey, Self-Realization, and Romanticism,” Philosophy Today 67, no. 2 (Spring 2023): 331-348
“Cavell’s Inheritance of Luther,” European Journal of Philosophy 30, no. 3 (2022): 1062-1076
“Skeptical Politics,” Living Skepticism (Brill Press, 2022)
“Perfection and Disaster,” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 27, no. 5 (2022): 17-36
“Being Realistic About Neoliberalism,” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 27, no. 1 (March 2020): 63-78