Richard E. Flathman 2136840 214246030 2008-05-22T18:49:23Z JayJasper 2643895 /* See also */ cat.'s '''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]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Flathman, Richard}} [[Category:1934 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American political theorists]] [[Category:Johns Hopkins University faculty]] {{US-philosopher-stub}} {{US-polisci-bio-stub}}