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James Miller

Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1975

Professor of Political Science and Liberal Studies

Profile:

History of political thought; democratic theory; social movements and political culture.

Recent Publications:

• Examined Lives: What We Can Learn from the Eminent Philosophers (forthcoming)
• Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977 (1999)
• The Passion of Michel Foucault (1993)
• Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago (1987)
• Rousseau: Dreamer of Democracy (1984)
• History and Human Existence: From Marx to Merleau-Ponty (1982)
• The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll (editor, 1980)

 
Take a look at two essays published by James Miller in Social Research:

• The prophet and the dandy: Philosophy as a way of life in Nietzsche and Foucault 
  Winter 1998 (Vol. 65, 4)
• Of Choice 
  Winter 1999 (Vol. 66, 4)

Office Location:

Room 712, 6 East 16th Street

Office Hours:

TBA

Phone Number/Extension:
212-229-2747, ext. 3027

Email:
MillerJE@newschool.edu

Research Interests:

A series of short biographical essays on selected ancient and modern philosophers, composed in the spirit of Plutarch's Lives, as a means to provoke moral reflection. The modern philosophers will include Montaigne, Rousseau, Kierkegaard, Emerson, Nietzsche, probably Marx and certainly Heidegger; among the ancient philosophers considered are likely to be Socrates, Plato, Diogenes the Cynic, Epicurus, Pyrrho, Seneca, and Augustine.

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