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One must study society by men and men by society: those who want to treat politics and morals seperately will never understand anything of either of the two.

~Rousseau

 

 

Brussels Internship Program

Political Thought Club

 

 
Publications


Publications

“Rousseau and the Problem of Self-Knowledge,” Review of Politics, Spring 2009

“No Substitute for Virtue” by Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey,
Weekly Standard, January 24, 2008. Reprinted as the lead opinion story at
CBSnews.com for Saturday, January 26, 2008.

“Montaigne, Secularism, and the Enlightenment,” to be published in the Institute
for the Study of Secularism and Culture’s anthology on “Secularism and the
Enlightenment”

Conference Papers

“Self-Knowledge and Individuality in Plato’s Phaedrus,” American Political
Science Association Conference
, Chicago, August 2007

“Self-Knowledge and the Autonomous Individual in the Thought of Montaigne,”
American Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, August 2007

“Self-Knowledge and the Politics of Individuality,” South Carolina Political
Science Association Conference
, February 2007

“Rousseau and the Problem of Self-Knowledge,” Midwest Political Science
Association Conference,
April 2005, Chicago

“The Origins of Individualism in the Thought of Montaigne” Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, November 2004, Boston

“Amiable Dunce or Evil Genius: Humanism and Fideism in the Thought of
Montaigne,” American Political Science Association Conference, August 2004,
Chicago

“Eros and Autonomy in the Thought of Montaigne” Institute for Humane Studies Colloquium, June 2004, Alexandria, VA

“A Book of Good Faith: an Introduction to Montaigne’s Essays” Social Thought Colloquium, April 2003, Chicago

 

 
 

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