Fall 2025 Courses

 Another year begins! Although I can't help wishing summer were longer, I love the thrill of fall semester, with its rites of convocation, first day butterflies, and rush at the bookshop. This semester, I also return to my own first semester of college, since I'll teach texts I first read then -- Hobbes' Leviathan and Locke's Second Treatise -- in my Modern Political Philosophy course. Here's the title page of the Hackett edition of Hobbes' Leviathan that I first bought at the Carleton Bookshop in September 1999 for Laurence Cooper's Introduction to Political Philosophy course.

Twenty-six years ago -- and it's still a challenge! (You'll note that I haven't taught with this edition every time I've taught Hobbes; I've also used the Cambridge from time to time.)

I'm also teaching another iteration of Governing the Self and Others this fall. I begin with Rousseau's Social Contract, but then go in many new directions, including Michel Foucault and Sheldon Wolin. I'm eager to see what students discover in the archives this time 'round!

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