William E. Scheuerman
William E. Scheuerman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1965 (age 60–61) |
| Awards | Spitz Prize |
| Education | |
| Education | Harvard University (PhD) Goethe University Frankfurt Yale University (BA) LMU Munich Wayne State University |
| Thesis | Reason, Radicalism, and the Rule of Law: The Frankfurt School and the Crisis of Modern Law (1993) |
| Judith N. Shklar, Seyla Benhabib | |
Other advisors | Michael Sandel, Bonnie Honig |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Critical theory | |
| Institutions | University of Pittsburgh University of Minnesota Indiana University Bloomington |
William E. Scheuerman (born 1965) is an American philosopher and James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington. He is known for his works on political theory.
Life
Scheuerman obtained a B.A. in philosophy at Yale University in 1987. He also spent a year abroad at LMU Munich from 1985 to 1986 on the Junior Year in Munich Program sponsored by Wayne State University.
Starting in 1987 he was a PhD student in Harvard University's Department of Government, while again spending a year from 1990 to 1991 in Germany at Goethe University Frankfurt. He obtained his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 1993, with a dissertation titled "Reason, Radicalism, and the Rule of Law: The Frankfurt School and the Crisis of Modern Law". His committee members included Judith N. Shklar (co-chair), Seyla Benhabib (co-chair), Michael Sandel, and Bonnie Honig.
He was an assistant professor from 1993 until 1998 and associate professor from 1998 until 2000 at the University of Pittsburgh, associate professor from 2000 until 2003 and professor of political science and affiliated professor of law from 2003 until 2005 at the University of Minnesota. Since then, he has been a professor of political science at Indiana University Bloomington.
Prizes
He is a winner of the David and Elaine Spitz Prize for his book Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law in 1996. He has received fellowships from DAAD, the Humboldt Foundation, and a Fulbright Award in 2016.
Publications
Articles
His work has been published in Constellations, History of Political Thought, International Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy, Politics & Society, Review of International Studies, and Social Research, among others.
Books
- Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law (MIT, 1994)
- The Rule of Law Under Siege (ed.) (California, 1996)
- The End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the Twenty-First Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999)
- From Liberal Democracy to Fascism: Legal and Political Thought in the Weimar Republic (ed. with Peter Caldwell) (Humanities Press, 2000)
- Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time (Johns Hopkins, 2004)
- Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law (Routledge 2008)
- Hans J. Morgenthau: Realism and Beyond (Polity, 2009)
- High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity (ed. with Hartmut Rosa) (Penn State, 2009)
- The Realist Case for Global Reform (Polity, 2011)
- Civil Disobedience (Polity Press, 2018)
- The Cambridge Companion to Civil Disobedience (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- Property Disobedience as Protest: Rethinking Political Nonviolence (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026)
References
- ↑ White, Jonathan (10 October 2013). "Review of Philosophical Foundations of European Union Law". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.
- ↑ Niesen, Peter (1 October 2017). "Review of Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.
- ↑ "About the Junior Year in Munich Program". Junior Year in Munich. 2024-08-26. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- 1 2 3 "William E. Scheuerman CV" (PDF). Indiana University Bloomington.
- ↑ "Prof. William E. Scheuerman, Indiana University : Politikwissenschaft : Universität Hamburg". www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ↑ "William E. Scheuerman auf Verfassungsblog". Verfassungsblog. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
- ↑ "Spitz Prize Past Winners". icspt.
- 1 2 "William Scheuerman: University Honors and Awards: Indiana University". University Honors & Awards. Retrieved 2025-04-07.
External links
- "William Scheuerman". Indiana University.
