Avital Simhony's present research project is a book entitled "Liberalism, Rightly Understood: The Tradition from T.H. Green to John Rawls." Challenging the conventional wisdom—that whatever else liberalism is, it is, beyond question, a type of individualism—is Professor Avital's task. To accomplish this task is to cast liberalism in new progressive light, largely unseen by standard scholarship. The main thesis of the book is that liberal mutualism, not liberal individualism, runs through modern liberalism’s main protagonists from T. H. Green through L. T. Hobhouse, John Dewey, Joseph Raz, John Rawls and others of their ilk. These leading liberal theorists advocate—unlike libertarianism with its one-sided individualism, and socialism with its over socialized sociability—a kind of mutualism: a normative theory premised on the claim that individuality and sociality are essentially complementary, each shaping the other and dependent on it, each incapable of independent existence. For liberals believe that every individual’s personality is woven of both individuality and sociality. How does the mutualist supposition shape modern liberalism? What would be the most effective approach to getting a good handle on liberal mutualism?
My present research project is a book entitled Liberalism, Rightly Understood: The Tradition from T.H. Green to John Rawls. Challenging the conventional wisdom—that whatever else liberalism is, it is, beyond question, a type of individualism—is my task. To accomplish this task is to cast liberalism in new progressive light, largely unseen by standard scholarship. The main thesis of the book is that liberal mutualism, not liberal individualism, runs through modern liberalism’s main protagonists from T. H. Green through L. T. Hobhouse, John Dewey, Joseph Raz, John Rawls and others of their ilk. These leading liberal theorists advocate—unlike libertarianism with its one-sided individualism, and socialism with its over socialized sociability—a kind of mutualism: a normative theory premised on the claim that individuality and sociality are essentially complementary, each shaping the other and dependent on it, each incapable of independent existence. For liberals believe that every individual’s personality is woven of both individuality and sociality. How does the mutualist supposition shape modern liberalism? What would be the most effective approach to getting a good handle on liberal mutualism?
Summer 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
POS 210 | Political Ideologies |
POS 493 | Honors Thesis |
Spring 2022 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
POS 346 | Problems of Democracy |
POS 394 | Special Topics |
SGS 394 | Special Topics |
POS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POS 493 | Honors Thesis |
Summer 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
POS 210 | Political Ideologies |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
SGS 394 | Special Topics |
POS 394 | Special Topics |
POS 443 | Contemporary Political Theory |
POS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POS 493 | Honors Thesis |
POS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
POS 346 | Problems of Democracy |
POS 394 | Special Topics |
POS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POS 493 | Honors Thesis |
Summer 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
POS 210 | Political Ideologies |
POS 346 | Problems of Democracy |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
POS 443 | Contemporary Political Theory |
POS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POS 493 | Honors Thesis |
POS 541 | Modern Political Theory |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
POS 346 | Problems of Democracy |
POS 443 | Contemporary Political Theory |
POS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POS 493 | Honors Thesis |
Summer 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
POS 210 | Political Ideologies |
POS 346 | Problems of Democracy |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
POS 341 | History of Political Phil II |
POS 443 | Contemporary Political Theory |
POS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POS 493 | Honors Thesis |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
POS 346 | Problems of Democracy |
POS 443 | Contemporary Political Theory |
POS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POS 493 | Honors Thesis |
Summer 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
POS 210 | Political Ideologies |
POS 346 | Problems of Democracy |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
POS 341 | History of Political Phil II |
POS 443 | Contemporary Political Theory |
POS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POS 493 | Honors Thesis |
POS 792 | Research |
POS 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
POS 346 | Problems of Democracy |
POS 443 | Contemporary Political Theory |
POS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
POS 493 | Honors Thesis |
POS 590 | Reading and Conference |
POS 790 | Reading and Conference |
POS 799 | Dissertation |