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Sociology at the Graduate Faculty

Andrew Arato
Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory.
PhD 1975, University of Chicago.
Office: 79 Fifth Avenue, Rm 919
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone: 212-229-5737, ext. 3124
Fax: 212-229-5595
E-Mail: Arato@newschool.edu

 

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Concentrations:
The Frankfurt School; the history of social thought; theories of East European societies and social movements.

Current research:
Sociology of rights; theory of society-type societies; constitutions and democracy.

Teaching:
Andrew Arato teaches the following graduate-level courses:

GSOC 5101 Sociology Foundations I [Core/Methods, E]
(Fall 2008)
GSOC 5199 Carl Schmitt: Theories of Dictatorship and Constitution
(Fall 2008)
GSOC 6118 Sociology of the State and its Law
(Fall 2008)
GSOC 6060 The Adventures of State and Popular Sovereignty: The People and the Presidency in the United States & France
(Spring 2006)
GSOC 6083 European Constitutional Theory [C]
(Fall 2005)
GSOC 6090 The Adventures of (Popular) Sovereignty [C]
(Spring 2006)

Publications:
Sistani v. Bush: Constitutional Politics in Iraq (Constellations, June 2004)
; The Occupation of Iraq and the Difficult Transition from Dictatorship (September 2003); Civil Society, Constitution, and Legitimacy (2000); Habermas on Law, Democracy, and Legitimacy (coeditor, 1998); From Neo-Marxism to Democratic Theory (1993); Civil Society and Political Theory (coauthor, 1992); Crisis and Reform in Eastern Europe (coeditor, 1991); Gorbachev: The Debate (coeditor, 1989); The Young Lukács and the Origins of Western Marxism (coauthor, 1979); The Essential Frankfurt School Reader (coeditor, 1978).

  

   
   
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