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Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995 e-mail: anorris@polsci.ucsb.edu C.V. (in .pdf format) Fields of Interest: Political Philosophy 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, Carl Schmitt, Thoreau, sovereignty, truth and politics, and the Bush-Cheney's use of 9/11 in Constellations; Diacritics; 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: Ordinary Language and Political Reflection in the Work of Stanley Cavell. Before coming to UCSB, Professor Norris was on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania and Duquesne University, where he taught courses on Heidegger and Political Philosophy, Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy, Moral Conflict and Political Legitimacy, Community and Political Identity, and Judgment and Practical Reason. Courses Taught:
Selected Recent Publications: "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). "Sovereignty, Exception, and Norm," Journal of Law and Society 34, no. 1 (March 2007). "Cynicism, Skepticism, and the Politics of Truth," Theory and Event 9, no. 4 (Winter 2006). "Heideggerian Law Beyond Law? Technique, Recht, and Phusis," Law, Culture, & the Humanities 2 (2006). "Ernesto Laclau and the Logic of the 'the Political,'" Philosophy and Social Criticism 32, no. 1 (January 2006). "A Mine that Explodes Silently: Carl Schmitt in Weimar and After," Political Theory 33, no. 6 (December 2005). |