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 Dr.
Joshua D. Goldstein
Lecture Series Organizer
Josh is currently a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow in
the Dept. of Political Science, McGill University and a Research
Associate at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University
of Toronto. Currently he is working
on a
book
length
project
on the ethical
basis
of same-sex marriage. His project uses the contemporary Canadian debate
over same-sex marriage as way to explore the deeper political-philosophic
issues around locating the proper boundaries of the family and the
relationship between familial life and human flourishing. Although
engaging contemporary debates, the project aims to bring the resources
of history of political thought to bear on current social, legal, and
policy issues. He is working with Alan Patten (Political Science, McGill
University).
Prior to taking up his post-doctoral fellowship,
Josh was an adjunct professor, teaching graduate seminars in the history
of political thought with the Collaborative Masters in International
Relations at the Munk Centre as well as undergraduate Canadian politics
at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. He also coordinated the
CPHS from 2001 to 2004 and organized the Shared Citizenship Public
Lecture Series, under the honorary patronage of the Lt. Governor
of Ontario.
In November 2001, Josh graduated with a PhD in political
theory from the Department of Political Science at the University of
Toronto. A revised version of 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). 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.
Apart from a number of book reviews, Josh has also
published two articles on various 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: Habit, Phronêsis and Experience
of the Good” in History of Political Thought (Vol. XXV,
No. 3, Autumn 2004:1–27).
Currently, Josh is completing an article on Rousseau
and Hegel's idea of the political education of the will as well as
preparing an edited book manuscript, Political Power and Mental
Health, arising from the 2003/4 Shared Citizenship Public
Lecture Series on the same theme.
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