Curriculum Vitae
Office Location
DV 3259
Phone Number
905-569-4404
Fax Number
905-569-4965
Email Address
Website
rbeiner.faculty.politics.utoronto.ca/
Area Group(s)
- Political Theory
Education
- B.A. (Hons.), McGill University
- D. Phil., Balliol College, University of Oxford
- B.A.,
Ronald Beiner
Professor Emeritus
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Biography
Interested in history of political thought and contemporary political philosophy. Publications include Hannah Arendt’s Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy (ed., 1982); Political Judgment (1983); Democratic Theory and Technological Society (co-ed., 1988); What’s the Matter With Liberalism? (1992); Kant and Political Philosophy (co-ed., 1993); Theorizing Citizenship (ed., 1995); Philosophy in a Time of Lost Spirit (1997); Theorizing Nationalism (ed., 1999); Canadian Political Philosophy (co-ed., 2001); Judgment, Imagination, and Politics (co-ed., 2001); Liberalism, Nationalism, Citizenship (2003); Civil Religion (2011); Political Philosophy: What It Is and Why It Matters (2014); and Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right (2018).
Research Interests
- History of Political Thought
- Contemporary Political Philosophy
Recent News
- Desmond Morton Research Excellence Award
- Balancing Stone Sculpture and Political Philosophy
- Theocracy in Our Time
- Professor Ronald Beiner Releases New Book on Political Philosophy