CURRICULUM
VITAE
MORTON
SCHOOLMAN
Department of Political
Science
518-442-527; mschlman@albany.edu
518-439-0403
EDUCATION
Appointments
Professor
Department of Political
Science
Date Effective: September
2005
Associate Professor
Department of Political
Science
Date Effective: September
1984
Assistant Professor
Department of Political
Science
Date Effective: September
1980
Curriculum Vitae
Morton Schoolman
page 2.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Political
Science and the Program
in Social Theory and Political
Economy
(joint
appointment)
Term of Appointment:
September 1977-1980
Assistant Professor
Department of Government
& Legal Studies
Term of Appointment:
September 1975-August 1978
(on
leave: September 1977-August 1978
Areas of
Specialization
Modern Political and Social
Theory
Books
Reason and Horror: Critical
Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality (
Reason and Horror: Critical
Theory, Democracy, and Aesthetic Individuality (
The Imaginary Witness: The
Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse (New York: Free Press,
1980), clothbound, 399 pp.
The Imaginary Witness: The
Critical Theory of Herbert Marcuse (New York: New York
University Press, 1984). paperbound, 399 pp.
Ensayo sobre la obra de
Herbert Marcuse, translated into Spanish by John Turner (Bogota, Columbia: Plaza y Janes,
1978). paperbound, 174 pp. (This work is not a
translation of The Imaginary Witness, but a separate study.)
Edited
Books
Editor,
Modernity and Political Thought, a
series of studies examining figures in the history of political thought from
the perspective of their contribution to our understanding of modernity.
Originally published by Sage Publications,
Curriculum Vitae
Morton Schoolman
page 3.
Modernity and Political
Thought was
purchased by Rowman & Littlefield in July 2000.
In 2001 - 2002, Rowman & Littlefield published
new editions of each of the series original ten volumes cited below. New titles
placed under contract and forthcoming are listed below under Edited Books in
Progress.
Volume 1. William E. Connolly, The Augustinian Imperative:
A Reflection on the Politics
of Morality. (167 pp.) Ed. with
Intro. by M. Schoolman, pp. vii-xvi. New edition,
with a new preface by the author (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2002).
Volume 2. Richard E. Flathman, Thomas Hobbes: Skepticism, Individuality, and
Chastened Politics. (183 pp.)
Ed. with Intro. by M. Schoolman. pp.ix-xxiv. New
edition, with a new preface by the author (Rowman
& Littlefield, 2002).
Volume 3. Fred Dallmayr, G.W.F. Hegel: Modernity and Politics. (269 pp.)
Ed. with Intro. by M.
Schoolman, pp. ix - xxi. New edition, with a new preface by
the author (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
Volume 4. Michael Shapiro, Reading 'Adam
Smith': The Politics of Desire (139 pp.). Ed. with Intro.
by M. Schoolman, pp. ix--xxiv. New edition, with a new
preface by the author (Rowman & Littlefield,
2002)
Volume 5. Stephen K. White, Edmund Burke:
Modernity, Politics, and Aesthetics.
(95 pp.) Ed. with Intro. by
M. Schoolman, pp. ix-xvii. New edition, with a new preface by
the author (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
Volume 6. Tracy Strong, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau: The Politics of the Ordinary. (199
pp.) Ed. with Intro. by M. Schoolman, pp. ix-xvii. New edition,
with a new preface by the author (Rowman &
Littlefield, 2002)
Volume 7. Jane Bennett, Thoreau's Nature:
Ethics, Politics, and the 'Wild'. (140 pp.) Ed. with Intro. by M. Schoolman,
vii-xviii. New edition, with a new preface by the author (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
Volume 8. George Kateb, Emerson and Self-Reliance. (220 pp.) Ed. with Intro. by M. Schoolman,
pp. ix-xxii. New edition, with a new preface by the author (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
Volume 9. Thomas Dumm, Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom.(166
pp.) Ed. with Intro. by
M. Schoolman, ix-xix. New edition, with a new preface by the
author (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
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Morton Schoolman
page 4.
Volume 10. Seyla Benhabib, Hannah Arendt's
Reluctant Modernism. (299 pp.) Ed.
with Intro. by M. Schoolman, pp. x-xxiv. New edition, with a new preface by the author (Rowman
& Littlefield, 2003).
Other
Edited Books
Reindustrializing New York
State: Strategies, Implications, Challenges, co edited with Alvin Magid
(New York: State University of New York Press, 1986), cloth and paperbound, 443
pp.
Chapters in
Books
"The Next Enlightenment: Aesthetic Reason in Modern Art and Mass Culture," in
Letting Be: Fred Dallmayr's Cosmopolitical Hermeutics, ed. Stephen F. Schneck
(
"Solving
the Dilemma of Statesmanship: Reindustrialization Through
an Evolving Democratic Plan," in Reindustrializing
New York State: Strategies, Implications, Challenges, co edited with Alvin Magid (New York: State University of New York Press, 1986),
pp. 3-49.
"The
Colonial Overlay and the African Response", in Theory and Practice of African Politics, by Christian P. Potholm (N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979), pp. 34-66.
"African
Political Thought," in Ibid., pp. 67-107.
Articles
& Reviews
"Avoiding 'Embarrassment': Aesthetic Reason and Aporetic Critique in Dialectic
of Enlightenment." July 2005, Polity, Journal of the Northeastern Political Science
Association. pp. 335-364.
"The Next Enlightenment: Aesthetic Reason in Modern Art and Mass Culture,"
Journal for Cultural Research, 9:1 (January, 2005), pp. 43-67.
Review
of Stephen K. White, Sustaining
Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory (
"Toward
A Politics of Darkness: Individuality and Its Politics in Adorno's
Aesthetics," Political Theory (Winter, 1997), pp. 57-92.
"The
Moral Sentiments of Neoliberalism," Political Theory (Spring,
1987), pp. 205-224.
Curriculum Vitae
Morton Schoolman
page 5.
"Herbert
Marcuse." Contribution to the Encyclopedia of Political Thought,
edited by Janet Coleman, David Miller, William Connolly, and Alan Ryan (London:
Basil Blackwell, 1986), pp. 315-317.
"Liberalism's
Ambiguous Legacy: Individuality and Technological Constraints, " in Research
in Philosophy and Technology, edited by Paul Durbin (CT: JAI Press, Fall
1984), Volume 7, pp. 229-252.
"Editor,
Special Issue on the Social and Political Thought of Antonio Gramsci, Telos (St.Louis: Spring, 1976),
31, pp. 35-112; 202-243.
"Marcuse's Aesthetics and the Displacement of Critical
Theory, "New German Critique (Milwaukee:
Spring, 1976), 8, pp. 53-79.
"Introduction
to Marcuse's 'On the Problem of the Dialectic'",
Telos
(St. Louis: Spring, 1976), 27, pp. 12-24.
"On the Problem of the Dialectic", by Herbert Marcuse. Translation of Part I, Telos (St. Louis: Spring,
1976), 27, pp. 12-24.
"Marcuse's 'Second Dimension'," Telos (St. Louis: Spring,
1975), 23, pp. 89-115.
"Further
Reflections on Work, Alienation, and Freedom in Marcuse
and Marx," Canadian Journal of
Political Science (Toronto: June, 1973), Volume VI, 2, pp. 295-302.
Books in
Progress
The Next Enlightenment: Aesthetic Reason in
Mass Culture and Modern Democracy, an explication and
defense of the concept of aesthetic reason, a consideration of its universalization in mass culture and its contribution to
the formation of an aesthetic enlightenment in modern democratic society, and
an assessment of its possible impact on the development of democratic
institutions, processes, civil society and individuality.
Edited Books in Progress
The
New Pluralism,
eds. David Campbell and Morton Schoolman, with an introductory essay by Morton
Schoolman entitled "A Pluralist Mind." Submitted to
Duke University Press, March 2006.
Curriculum Vitae
Morton Schoolman
page 6.
Forthcoming
Edited Books
Shadia Drury, Aquinas and Modernity, forthcoming in Modernity and Political Thought (Rowman & Littlefield 2006), edited with an introduction by Morton Schoolman, forthcoming Spring 2007.
Kennan Ferguson, William James: Politics in the Pluriverse, forthcoming in Modernity and Political Thought (Rowman & Littlefield 2006), edited with an introduction by Morton Schoolman, forthcoming Spring 2007.
Diana Coole, Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Modernity and Politics, forthcoming in Modernity and Political Thought (Rowman & Littlefield 2006), edited with an introduction by Morton Schoolman, forthcoming Spring 2007.
Forthcoming
from Modernity and Political Thought
(Rowman & Littlefield), works on Karl Marx, by
Wendy Brown; Thomas Aquinas, by Shadia Drury; Thomas
More, by Peter Euben; William James, by Kennan Ferguson; Sigmund Freud, by James Glass; John Stuart
Mill, by Kirstie McClure; Nietzsche, by David Owen;
Carl Schmitt, by J. Kam Shapiro; Machiavelli, by
Miguel Vatter; John Rawls, by Donald Moon; Merleau-Ponty, by Diana Coole;
Sheldon Wolin, by Nicholas Xenos;
William Connolly by Kathleen Skerrett.
Articles in
Progress
"Missing in Action: The Problem of Aesthetic Reason in Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action." In
progress.
Professional
Activities
"Another
Enlightenment: Rethinking Mass Culture,"
"Another
Enlightenment: Rethinking Mass Culture,"
"Rawls,
Liberalism, and Difference," roundtable presentation at the National
Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
"Pluralism, Privacy and Representation,"
panel, National Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago,
IL., September 2004 (discussant).
"The Next Enlightenment: Aesthetic Reason in Modern Art and Mass Culture,"
invited lecture,
[Forthcoming Winter 2005, Journal for Cultural Research, Institute for Cultural
Curriculum Vitae
Morton Schoolman
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Studies,
"The
Next Enlightenment: Aesthetic Reason in Modern Art and Mass Culture,"
panel paper presented at the National Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Philadelphia, PA., August 2003.
"The
Next Enlightenment," invited lecture, Humanitech
Seminar, State University of New York at
"Aesthetic
Individuality as a Democratic Achievement," invited lecture, Political
Philosophy Colloquium, Department of Political Science, Union College, October
2002. [Based on Chapter 7, Reason and Horror, see "Recently
Completed Books" above.]
"Political Theory and Terror:
Insights into Violence, Fear, and Disintegration," panel, National Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, August 2002 (discussant).
"Democracy as a Poetic Form of Life," invited lecture, Sage
College Philosophy Forum, April 2002. [Based on Chapter 8, Reason and Horror, see
"Recently Completed Books" above.]
"Art
and the Unknown: On the Significance of Learning Nothing From the Work of
Art," invited lecture, Rhode Island College, October 2001, on the occasion
of the opening of the Mario Giacomelli exhibit,
"Modernism and Soul." [Based on Chapter 5, Reason and Horror,
see "Recently Completed Books" above.]
“Aesthetics and Politics,” panel, Midwest
Political Science Meeting, Chicago 2002
(discussant).
“Cinema, Political
Theory, Politics,” panel, National Meeting of the American
Political Science
Association, San Francisco 2001 (discussant).
"Dialectic of Enlightenment as a
Genealogy of Reason," paper presented at the National Meeting of the
American Political Science Association,
"Individuality as an Aesthetic Problem: From the Point of View of
Whitman, the Artist (the Creator)," invited lecture,
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Morton Schoolman
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"An
Ethic of Appearances," paper presented at the Hudson-Mohawk Chapter of the
Conference for Political Thought, February 2000. [Chapter 7, Reason and Horror; see "Recently
Completed Books" above]
"Aesthetic
Individuality as a Democratic Achievement," paper presented at the
National Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
"Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics," panel, National Meeting
of the American Political Science Association,
"The
Influence of Hegel and Nietzsche on Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of
Enlightenment," paper presented at the National Meeting of the
American Political Science Association,
"Aesthetic Individuality in Whitman and Adorno,"
invited lecture,
"Whitman's
'Miracle of Miracles' -- the Miracle of Identity," panel paper presented
at the Midwest Political Science Association,
"Surfaces: Aesthetic Individuality as the Marriage of Light and
Dark," panel paper presented at the National Meeting of the American
Political Science Association,
"Toward
a Politics of Darkness: Adorno's Aesthetic
Turn," invited lecture, University of Massachusetts, Department of
Political Science Colloquium for Social and Political Theory, December 1994.
[Early draft of "Toward a Politics of Darkness: Aesthetic Individuality
and Its Politics in Adorno's Aesthetics,"
published in Political Theory,
February 1997; see "Articles" above.]
"Toward
a Politics of Darkness: Adorno's Aesthetic
Turn," panel paper presented at the National Meeting of the American
Political Science Association,
[Early
draft of "Toward a Politics of Darkness: Aesthetic Individuality and Its
Politics in Adorno's Aesthetics," published in Political Theory, February 1997; see
"Articles" above.]
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Morton Schoolman
page 9.
"Identity and Difference in Gay and Lesbian Politics," panel,
National Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
"Political Theory and the Holocaust," panel, National Meeting
of the American Political Science Association,
"The
Repression of Politics in Habermas's Theory of
Communicative Action," panel paper presented at the National Meeting of
the American Political Science Association,
"Liberalism,
Individualism, and Social Order," panel paper presented at the National
Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
"Theories
of Reindustrialization," lecture presented at the Rockefeller College of
Public Affairs and Policy Colloquium Series, State University of New York,
Implications, Challenges, coedited
with Alvin Magid (New York: State University of New
York Press, 1986). See "Edited Books" above.]
"Political
Theory as Political Discourse," paper presented at the National Meeting of
the American Political Science Association,
"Marxism: Seeds of Democracy or Tyranny?" panel, New England
Political Science Association, 1982 (commentator).
"On
the Nature of Individualism in Modern America: The Conflicting Perspectives of
Critical Theory and Interpretive Theory," invited lecture, Graduate School
of Public Affairs, State University of New York at
"Freud and Critical Theory," invited lecture,
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Morton Schoolman
p. 10.
"Psychoanalytic
Concepts and the Philosophy of Internal Relations," panel paper presented
at the National Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
"Critical
Theory, Dialectics, and Relativism," invited lecture, Department of
Political Science and Program in Social Theory and Political Economy,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, February, 1977.
"On
Historicizing Freud," invited lecture,
Reviewer
for Political Theory, Journal of Politics,
Western Political Quarterly, Polity, American Political Science Review, Publius, Telos, and
various presses, including Cornell University Press, Princeton University
Press, Duke University Press, State University of New York Press, Macmillan,
and Prentice-Hall.
Awards and
Grants
Chancellor's
Award for Excellence in Teaching, State
President's
Undergraduate Leadership Award, May 1996
President's
Award for Excellence in Teaching, State
Choice
Book Award, "An Outstanding Academic Book of the Year" (1981), for The Imaginary Witness: The Critical Theory of
Herbert Marcuse (New York: Free Press, 1980).
Conversations
in the Disciplines award, Research Foundation of the State University of New York, and
matching grant from the Center for Organization and Policy Studies, Nelson A.
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York
at Albany, to subsidize a conference entitled "The Reindustrialization of
New York: Strategies, Implications, Challenges," May 7 & 8, 1983
(total awards: $5000).
University
Awards Program, Research Foundation at the State University of New York,
June-July, 1982, for a project entitled "The Subterranean Life of
Liberalism," subsequently presented at the National Meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 1982, as
"Political Theory and Political Discourse," and revised and published
as parts II and
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Morton Schoolman
p. 11.
Bowdoin College Humanities Grant, 1976, for research subsequently published as
"Marcuse's Aesthetics and the Displacement of Critical
theory," New German Critique (Milwaukee:
Spring, 1976), 8, pp. 54-79; and 1977 for research subsequently entitled
"Psychoanalytic Concepts and the Philosophy of Internal Relations,"
and presented at the National Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, 1977 (unpublished).
Courses
Taught
Fall 1991
Spring 1992
Fall 1992
Theory'"
Spring 1993
Communitarian Debate"
Foundations of Critical Theory"
Fall 1993
Spring 1994
Fall 1994
Spring 1995 (Undergraduate Coordinator course reduction; one course taught)
Nietzscheans"
Fall 1995 (on sabbatical leave)
Spring 1996
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Fall 1996 (on leave from teaching)
Spring 1997
Democracy in
Fall 1997
Spring 1998
Multiculturalism"
Sphere"
Fall 1998
Spring 1999
Communicative Action"
Fall 1999
Spring 2000
and Aesthetics"
Fall 2000
of Nietzsche"
Spring 2001
Fall 2001
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p. 13
Contemporary Political Theory"
Spring 2002
Fall 2002
Spring 2003 (on sabbatical leave)
Fall 2003
Spring 2004
Fall 2004
Administrative
Appointments, State
Department
of Political Science
Director,
Honors Program (2001-)
Faculty
Sponsor, Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Society (2001-)
Colloquium
Committee (1997-2000)
Undergraduate
Coordinator, Major in Political Science (1994-1996)
Undergraduate
Curriculum Committee (1981; 1994-1996)
Chair,
Political Theory Field Committee, Chair (1993-1996)
Political
Theory Colloquium Committee, (1991-1994) (Chair, 1991-1992; 1993-1996)
Graduate
Admissions Committee (1981-1985; 1993-1994)
Undergraduate
Coordinator, Major in Public Affairs (1983-1988)