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ANNA STILZ
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
Political Science |
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Biography
Anna Stilz (Ph.D. Harvard, 2005) is a political theorist whose work focuses on the relation between democracy and citizen solidarity. Her dissertation reconstructed and defended Rousseau’s account of freedom in the democratic state, an account which contains a controversial condition: in order to legislate for one another in a manner that is not dominating, democratic citizens must share a form of solidarity sufficient to motivate them to take one another’s interests into account. In her dissertation, she examined the question of what could provide such solidarity, evaluating contemporary defences of cultural nationalism, constitutional patriotism, and concluding by sketching her own view about how democratic unity might be grounded solely in the practice of citizenship. An additional research interest is in the reception of Rousseau’s ideas about freedom and the state in the German tradition (especially in the work of Kant and Fichte). Stilz spent the 2005-2006 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Research Interests: history of modern political thought (Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, Hegel); political authority; nationalism; contemporary democratic theory; theories of rights.
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