Andrew J. Douglas

Trained as a political theorist, my work is concerned broadly with the cultural values and civic virtues that animate and sustain political life. My current project, Democracy and the Critical Imagination, is an attempt to put theoretical reflection on social criticism into conversation with concerns over increasing political apathy and democratic disillusion on the part of ordinary American citizens. Drawing broad inspiration from Hegel and Marx, and with specific chapters on Jean-Paul Sartre, Theodor Adorno, and C.L.R. James, I suggest that theorists and ordinary citizens can begin to reanimate the democratic imagination in our time by reconsidering some of the language and conceptual resources of both humanist thought and dialectical reflection. I have taught seminars in democratic theory, critical theory, and Continental political thought. For more information about my research and teaching interests, please see my website.

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