John Christman

Professional Bio

Areas of Specialization

• Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy
• Moral Theory
• Figures in the History of Political Philosophy
• Feminist Social and Political Philosophy

Recent Courses

• Rawlsian Liberalism and its Critics
• Freedom and Slavery
• Rousseau's Social and Political Philosophy

Recent Publications

• “Alienation and Reification” in Ludwig Siep, Heikki Ikaheimo and Michael Quante, eds. Hanbuch Anerkennung (Springer, in press).
• “Anti-Perfectionism and Autonomy in an Imperfect World: Comments on Joseph Raz’sThe Morality of Freedom 30 Years On”. Moral Philosophy and Politics 4 no. 1 (2017), 5-25.
• Social and Political Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction, 2^nd ed. London: Routledge, 2017.
• “Autonomy and Liberalism: A Troubled Marriage?” in Steven Wall, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 141-62.
• “Autonomy and Social Disorientation” in Geoffrey Levey, ed. Authenticity, Autonomy and Multiculturalism (London: Routledge, 2015).
• “Telling Our Stories in the Master’s Tongue: Narrative Selves and Oppressive Circumstance” in Christopher Cowley, ed. Philosophy of Autobiography (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015).
• The Politics of Persons: Individual Autonomy and Socio-Historical Selves. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays, co-edited with Joel Anderson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, January 2005
• "Saving Positive Freedom" Political Theory 33 no.1 (February, 2005), 79-88
• "Narrative Unity as a Condition of Personhood" Metaphilosophy, 35 no. 5 (October 2004), 695-713
• The Myth of Property: Toward an Egalitarian Theory of Ownership. Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1994

Current Projects

(editor) Positive Freedom: Past, Present and Future. Original essays by multiple authors.  Under contract, Cambridge University Press.