UCSB Department of Political Science - Andrew Norris, Associate Professor

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Department of Political Science
Mailcode #9420
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9420

Phone: (805) 893-3432
Advising: (805) 893-4192
Fax: (805) 893-3309

Andrew Norris, Associate Professor

Political Philosophy
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Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995
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Professor Norris is the editor of The Claim to Community (Stanford University Press, 2006) and Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's "Homo Sacer" (Duke University Press, 2005). He has published essays on Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Cavell, Kant, Hegel, Ernesto Laclau, Jean-Luc Nancy, Oakeshott, Carl Schmitt, Thoreau, sovereignty, truth and politics, and the Bush-Cheney's use of 9/11 in Constellations; Diacritics; Journal of Law & Society, Law, Culture & the Humanities; Metaphilosophy; Philosophy and Social Criticism; Political Theory; Polity; Radical Philosophy; Telos; Theory and Event; Social Science Encyclopedia; International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences; and German and American edited collections. He is currently completing a book entitled Publicity and Partiality: Political Reflection in the Work of Stanley Cavell.

Professor Norris is also an affiliated member of the faculty of the Department of Philosophy at UCSB.

Courses Taught:

PS 1	Political Ideas in the Modern World
PS 108	Politics and Literature
PS 188	Modern Political Theory
PS 189	Contemporary Political Theory
PS 196	Senior Seminar: Conservative Political Thought
PS 241	Graduate Seminar: Modern Political Thinkers (Emerson and American Trancendentalism)

Selected Recent Publications:
" 'La Chaine des raisons a une fin.' Wittgenstein et Oakeshott sur le rationalisme et la pratique," Cites: Philosophie, Politique, Histoire 38 (2009).

"Das Politische als das Metaphysiche und das Alltagliche," Philosophie als Lebensform: Wittgensteins Philosophie zwischen Theorie und Praxis (Mentis Verlag, forthcoming).

"Thoreau, Cavell, and the Foundations of True Political Expression," A Political Companion to Henry David Thoreau (University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming).

"Becoming Who We Are: Democracy and the Political Problem of Hope," Critical Horizons: A Journal of Philosophy and Social Theory 9, no. 1 (May 2008).

"Willing and Deciding: Hegel on Irony, Evil, and the Sovereign Exception," Diacritics nos. 2-3 (2007).

"Sovereignty, Exception, and Norm," Journal of Law and Society 34, no. 1 (March 2007).