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Steven Smith

Alfred Cowles Professor of Government, Professor of Philosophy

Areas of Interest

Political Philosophy (Ancient and Modern); Philosophies of Education; Theories of Constitutional Government and Statesmanship

Publications

Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow
Publisher: Yale University Press
Copyright Date: 2016

Political Philosophy
Publisher: Yale University Press: Open Courses Series
Copyright Date: 2012

Spinoza’s Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics
Publisher: Yale University Press
Copyright Date: 2003

Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity
Publisher: Yale University Press
Copyright Date: 1997

Contact Info

steven.smith@yale.edu

203-432-5263

115 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511