Richard E. Flathman
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'''Richard E. Flathman''' (born [[August 6]] 1934 in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]]) is the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of [[Political Science]], Emeritus, at [[Johns Hopkins University]]. He is known for having pioneered, with [[Brian Barry]], [http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/government/faculty/profiles/Braybrooke/David/ David Braybrooke], [http://cfs.unipv.it/opere/carter/fppm.htm Felix Oppenheim], and [[Abraham Kaplan]], the application of [[analytic philosophy]] to [[political science]]. He is a leading advocate of [[liberalism]] and a champion of [[individuality]]. He defends a conception of social [[Freedom (political)|freedom]] according to which it is "negative, situated, and elemental."
He received his PhD from [[University of California|Berkeley]] in 1962. He has been a professor at Johns Hopkins since 1975, and was chair of his department from 1979-1985. Prior to joining Hopkins, he taught at the Universities of Washington and Chicago, and at Reed College.
With his colleague and interlocutor [[William E. Connolly]], Flathman founded what is sometimes called the "Hopkins School" of [[political theory]].
==Selected publications==
* ''The Public Interest: An Essay Concerning the Normative Discourse of Politics'' (1966)
* "Equality and Generalization: A Formal Analysis" ''NOMOS IX: Equality'' (1967)
* ''Political Obligation'' (1972)
* ''The Practice of Rights'' (1976)
* ''The Practice of Political Authority: Authority and the Authoritative'' (1980)
* "Rights, Needs, and Liberalism" ''Political Theory'' 8 (1980)
* "Egalitarian Blood and Skeptical Turnips" ''Ethics'' 93 (1983)
* "Moderating Rights" ''Social Philosophy and Policy'' 1 (1984)
* ''The Philosophy and Politics of Freedom'' (1987)
* "Convention, Contractarianism, and Freedom" ''Ethics'' 98 (1987)
* ''Toward a Liberalism'' (1989)
* ''Willful Liberalism: Voluntarism and Individuality in Political Theory and Practice'' (1992)
* ''Thomas Hobbes: Skepticism, Individuality, and Chastened Politics'' (1993)
* ''Reflections of a Would-Be Anarchist: Ideals and Institutions of Liberalism'' (1998)
* ''Freedom and Its Conditions: Discipline, Autonomy, and Resistance'' (2003)
* ''Pluralism and Liberal Democracy'' (2005)
* "Perfectionism without Perfection: Cavell, Montaigne, and the Conditions of Morals and Politics," in Andrew Norris (ed.) ''The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy'' (Stanford University Press, 2006)
* "Here and Now, There and Then, Always and Everywhere: Reflections Concerning Political Theory and the Study/Writing of Political Thought," in David Armitage (ed.) ''British Political Thought in History, Literature, and Theory, 1500-1800'' (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
* "The Philosophy and Politics of Freedom," in ''Freedom: A Philosophical Anthology'', ed. Ian Carter, Matthew Kramer, and Hillel Steiner (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006)
* "Legitimacy," in ''A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy'', Second Edition, ed. Robert Goodin, Philip Pettit, and Thomas Pogge (Blackwells, 2007)
* "Response to Critics," ''The Good Society'' 15 (3) (2006), p. 27
==As editor==
* ''Concepts in Social and Political Philosophy'' (1973)
==Of further interest==
* Symposium on ''Pluralism and Liberal Democracy'' in ''The Good Society'' 15 (3) (2006), edited by Jacob T. Levy. The symposiasts were [[George Kateb]], Eric MacGilvray, Richard Boyd, and Levy.
* [http://people.vanderbilt.edu/~robert.talisse/Flathman_review.pdf Robert B. Talisse, "Review of ''Pluralism and Liberal Democracy''" ''Social Theory and Practice'' 33 (2007): 151-158]
* Keith Topper, "An Interview with Richard Flathman" ''Hedgehog Review'' Summer 2005: 103-106
* ''Skepticism, Individuality, and Freedom: The Reluctant Liberalism of Richard Flathman'', edited by Bonnie Honig and David R. Mapel (2002)
* William Lund, "Fatal Attraction: 'Willful Liberalism' and the Denial of Public Transparency" ''Political Research Quarterly'' 53 (2000): 305-326
==See also==
*[[Thomas Hobbes]]
*[[Michel de Montaigne]]
*[[John Stuart Mill]]
*[[Wilhelm von Humboldt]]
*[[William James]]
*[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]
*[[Michael Oakeshott]]
*[[Hannah Arendt]]
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