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Biography
Education
Ph.D – Harvard University, 1990
M.P.P. – Harvard University, 1980
A.B. – University of Michigan, 1978
Interests and Research
Mark
Lilla, Professor of Humanities, specializes in intellectual history,
with a particular focus on Western political and religious thought.
Before moving to Columbia in 2007 he taught in the Committee on Social
Thought at the University of Chicago and at New York University. A
regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he is the author
of The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West (2007),
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics (2001),and G.B. Vico: The
Making of an Anti-Modern (1993). He has also edited The Legacy of
Isaiah Berlin (2001) with Ronald Dworkin and Robert Silvers, and The
Public Face of Architecture (1987) with Nathan Glazer. He is currently
writing a book titled Ignorance and Bliss, and another on the history of the idea of conversion.
Teaching
Courses
Enlightenment and Its Critics
Themes in Intellectual History
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship, 2004-05
Knight of the Order of Academic Palms, French Ministry of Education, 1995
Leo Strauss Award, American Political Science Association, 1991
Prix de Rome, 1986
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