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 Dr.
Joshua D. Goldstein
Lecture Series Organizer
Josh holds a PhD in political
theory from the Department of Political Science
at the University of Toronto and is the author
of Hegel's Idea of the Good Life: From Virtue
to Freedom, Early Writings and Mature Political
Philosophy (Studies In German Idealism, Vol.
7) (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006) which 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, he
has written 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).
Another article, "The Paradox of Political
Education: Hegel, Rousseau, and the Democratic
Transformation of the Will" is currently
under review.
Josh is currently a SSHRC Post-Doctoral
Fellow at the Department of Political Science
at McGill University (with Alan Patten, now
at Princeton University) and a Research Associate
of the Munk Centre for International Studies.
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 currently working
on a piece tentatively entitled "Between
Right and Tradition: Same-Sex Marriage and
the Challenge to Political Philosophy" that
explores the philosophic importance of the
question of the state recognition of same-sex
marriage.
Prior to taking up his post-doctoral
fellowship, he was the coordinator for two
research programs—the
Comparative Program on Health and Society,
and the Halbert Exchange Program—both
at the Munk Centre for International Studies.
Currently,
he teaches a graduate seminar in the history
of political thought with
the
Collaborative
MA in International Relations at the Munk
Centre.
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