Summer Institute Seminar by Thomas Pangle based on a reading of Monstesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws.
Faculty Bio:
Thomas Pangle
- Holds the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
- Earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and completed a dissertation that was published in revised form by the University of Chicago Press as “Montesquieu’s Philosophy of Liberalism: A Commentary on the SPIRIT OF THE LAWS”
- Held the University Professorship in the Dept. of Political Science at the University of Toronto and a visiting professorship at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris
- Has authored nine books and numerous journal articles, and edited four volumes on topics in political philosophy; his most recent text, The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu’s “Spirit of the Laws”, was published in 2010. Other works include a study of political theory’s dialogue with the Bible and an introduction to the teaching of Leo Strauss
Tags: Montesquieu, Political philosophy, Spirit of the Laws, Thomas Pangle, University of Texas at Austin