My thesis aims to defend Wittgenstein’s concept of the “ordinary” as a unique conception of “home” which can model a form of political subjectivity crucial for our complex form of contemporary life. I use the term of the ...

The real threat to liberal democracy isn’t authoritarianism--it's nationalist oligarchy. Here's how American foreign policy should change.

This dissertation explores the representation of masses in the works of Austrian exile author Hermann Broch. I argue that the largely indirect representations of the mass in Broch’s work are indicative of a persistent ...

This dissertation examines the injustices perpetrated against Indigenous people in Canada within the explicit framework of democratic theory. I examine the ability of Deweyan democracy as a purported problem-solving mechanism ...

The core commitment of liberalism is that individual liberty is in some sense primary. There is, however, much disagreement over the concept of liberty itself. In this dissertation, I attempt to determine which conception ...

In this dissertation I explore the conceptual relationship between equality and resistance in political philosophy. Through examination of the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, John Dewey, and Jacques Rancière, I ...