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George Crowder

Professor of Political Theory

BA, LLB, (Victoria University of Wellington), DPhil (Oxford)

Phone

61 8 8201 2478

Fax

61 8 8201 5111

Email

George.Crowder@flinders.edu.au

Postal address  

School of Political and International Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences
Flinders University GPO Box 2100 ADELAIDE SA 5001

Office:

390 Social Sciences South Building

Areas of expertise

Contemporary political theory; history of political thought; liberalism; value pluralism; Isaiah Berlin; concepts of freedom; anarchism

Topics

POLI 1004 Modern Political Thought
POLI 2013 Classics of Political Thought
POLI 2018 Basic Issues in Contemporary Political Theory
POLI 2046 Continental Political Thought
POLI 7053 Honours Political Philosophy

Indicative research publications

Books

The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin (co-editor, with Henry Hardy) (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2007)

Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism, (Cambridge: Polity, 2004).

Liberalism and Value Pluralism, (London and New York: Continuum, 2002).

Classical Anarchism: the Political Thought of Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991).

Recent articles, chapters etc:

'Two Concepts of Liberal Pluralism', Political Theory, vol. 35, no. 2 (2007): 121-146.

'Value Pluralism and Liberalism: Berlin and Beyond', in Crowder and Hardy, eds, The One and the Many, 2007.

'Value Pluralism and Communitarianism', Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 5, no. 4, November 2006.

'Gray and the Politics of Pluralism', Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, vol. 9, no. 2, June 2006 (Special Issue on 'The Political Theory of John Gray'); also in J. Horton and G. Newey, eds., The Political Theory of John Gray (London & NY: Routledge, 2007).

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