Office Hours:
Mondays
1PM - 3PM, and by appointment
Specialization
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