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 Dr.
Joshua D. Goldstein
Lecture Series Organizer
Josh received his PhD in political theory from the
Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto in Fall
2001. Currently he is an Adjunct Professor in the Collaborative Masters
in International Relations program and Program Coordinator with the
Munk Centre for International Studies.
His dissertation is being published as Hegel's
Idea of the Good Life: Virtue, Freedom, and the Modern Self (a
volume in the Studies in German Idealism series) (Dordrecht: Kluwer
Academic Publishers, forthcoming 2004). His book explores the way Hegel's
thinking about the "good life" undergoes a transformation
from one rooted in Ancient Greek conceptions of virtue to one defined
by a unique conception of freedom which can be used to critically engage
the three defining institutions of the modern political community: family,
market economy, and bureaucratized political state.
He has also written two articles on other aspects
of Hegel's political philosophy, “Hegel's Conception of Human
Nature in the Tübingen Essay of 1793” in Clio: A Journal
of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History (Vol. 32,
No. 4, Summer 2003:433–456) and “The ‘Bees Problem’
in Hegel’s Political Philosophy” in History of Political
Thought (forthcoming).
Currently he is working on a book length project
on the ethical basis of same-sex marriage which attempts to bring the
resources of history of political thought to bear on contemporary social,
legal, and policy issues.
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