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Bernard Yack (born 1952) is a Canadian born American political theorist.

Bernard Yack

He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he was a student of Judith Shklar. He has taught at numerous universities including Princeton, & the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of many works of political philosophy and social philosophy including The Problems of a Political Animal.[1] and The Longing for Total Revolution: The Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche. His most recent book is entitled National and the Moral Psychology of Community. Yack Heis currently the Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy at Brandeis University.[2]

Publications

Yack, Bernard. ""Shklar's Montaigne: A Genealogy of Liberal Morals"." Judith Shklar Reconsidered. Ed. Samantha Ashenden and Andreas Hess. Penn State Press, 2018 (forthcoming)

Yack, Bernard. ""Political Liberalism, Political not Philosophical." Perspectives on Political Science 15. (2017): 146-51.

Yack, Bernard. ""Democracy and the Love of Truth"." Truth and Democracy. Ed. Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 165-80.

Yack, Bernard. Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Yack, Bernard. ""Birthright, Birthwrongs: Contingency, Choice and Cosmopolitanism in Recent Political Thought"." Political Theory 39. (2011): 406-16.

Bernard Yack. ""You Don't Have to be a Fanatic to Act Like One"." Studi Veneziani LIX. (2010): 135-151.

Yack, Bernard. ""Rhetoric and Public Reason: An Aristotelian Theory of Deliberation." Political Theory 34. (2006): 417-38.

Yack, Bernard. The Fetishism of Modernities: Epochal Self-Consciousness in Contemporary Social and Political Thought. University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.

Yack, Bernard. Liberalism without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar. University of California Press, 1996.

Yack, Bernard. The Problems of a Political Animal: Community, Conflict, and Justice in Aristotelian Political Thought. University of California Press, 1993.

Yack, Bernard. The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche. Princeton University Press, 1986.

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