Nicholas Tampio
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 2017254 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nicholas Tampio |
| NOMBRES | Nicholas |
| APELLIDO | Tampio |
| FIRMA | TAMPIO N |
| AFILIACIONES | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7295-8486 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Why Xunzi? A Dilemma for an East Asian Democratic Political Constructivist
One of my favorite books to teach is the Xunzi. In the famous chapter titled “Human Nature is Bad,” Xunzi compares human nature to crooked wood that the ruler must steam and bend straight. “Now without teachers or proper models for people, they will be deviant, dangerous, and not correct. Without ritual and yi , they will be unruly, chaotic, and not well ordered.” 1 Immanuel Kant and Isaiah Berlin maintain that liberalism is predicated on the rul…
William James, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Training of Egalitarian Instincts
The right to dream
Do Americans have a right to believe that the country is making racial progress? Conservatives sometimes answer yes and argue that the country is achieving Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of a color‐blind society. Afropessimists answer no and point to the continuing problems of police terror, mass incarceration, and poverty among Black Americans. This article unearths King's 1952 term paper on the pragmatists to reveal an early engagement with Wil…
The Two Faces of Democracy
Deparochializing Political Theory By Melissa S.Williams, New York, NY
Poetry and democratic education
Should public schools provide students with opportunities to write poetry? If so, why? The modern education reform movement insists that students be able to answer questions citing specific textual evidence. In practice, this means that American public education focuses on standardized testing and gives students few opportunities to say something new. In this essay, I explain how Charles Taylor’s expressivist thesis justifies a place for poetry i…
Time for religion? Liberalism, Haredi Jews, and state regulation of nonpublic schools
Political theorists argue that justice requires treating people's time as having equal worth. In this article, I contend that justice sometimes requires making exceptions to uniform time rules. The article focuses on New York State's regulations for nonpublic schools and how they affect Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jewish day schools, or yeshivas. Dissatisfied yeshiva graduates, the state education department, and several liberal political theorists a…
Teaching Political Theory
Political theory deals with profound questions about human nature, political principles, and the limits of knowledge. In Teaching Political Theory, Nicholas Tampio shows how political theorists may take a pluralistic approach to help students investigate the deepest levels of political life.
The misguided quest for a constitutional right to education
The Supreme Court ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973) that there is no constitutional right to education, but that has not stopped families and education activists from arguing that this right is implicit in the Fourteenth Amendment. Nicholas Tampio contends that, based upon the history of federal involvement in education, a constitutional right to education would likely lead to an increase in high-stakes testing.…
War for peace
Is Perpetual Peace Possible
What if Neoliberalism Captures the Human Rights Establishment? Sustainable Development Goal 4 and the Global Education Reform Movement
Who Won the Math Wars
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Democracy and National Education Standards
This article intervenes in the debate about whether democracies should adopt national education standards. For many democrats, national education standards may promote economic growth, social justice, and a common set of interests. In this article, I reconstruct John Dewey's warning against oligarchs using standardization to control the schools as well as his argument that democracy requires student, teacher, and community autonomy. The article a…
On the Coptic question
Bonnie Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics
In the 1980s and 1990s, a central debate in academic political theory was between liberals and communitarians, Kantians and Hegelians, Rawls and his critics. Bonnie Honig’s Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (1993) disrupted this debate and argued that surface disagreements conceal an underlying consensus that the purpose of political theory is to answer, once and for all, the fundamental political questions. Drawing upon and trans…
Political Theory and the Untimely
Democracy, Federal Power, and Education Reform
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Green Allies
This essay addresses the question of how to build political coalitions to address global warming. For speculative realists such as Levi Bryant, responding to climate change demands materialist ontologies that recognize the efficacy of things themselves, e.g. fossil fuels. And yet, I argue, Bryant does not sufficiently address the political assignment of building political coalitions with people who endorse different ontologies. To illuminate this…
Islamic Political Thought
Islamic political thought is a tradition of conceptualizing human affairs that originates with the Prophet Muhammad (570–632 ce ) in seventh‐century Arabia. In his lifetime Muhammad recited the Qur'an and established a precedent (sunna) that Muslims ever since have taken as a guide for how to establish a just community. In the following centuries Muslims spread the Islamic way of life ( din ) across the Middle East, North Africa, southern Europe,…
Entering Deleuze's Political Vision
How can Deleuzians make his philosophy as accessible as possible to political theorists and democratic publics? This essay provides principles to enter Deleuze's political vision, namely, to research the etymology of words, to discover the image beneath concepts, to diagram schemata using rigid lines, supple lines and lines of flight, and to construct rules that balance experimentation and caution. The essay then employs this method to explicate …
What if the Pious Don’t Want to Deliberate
What should political theorists do when they travel beyond the West and find that ordinary people do not want to reflect upon their political commitments? One option is to do rehabilitative political theory and argue that China and Egypt, say, already possess deliberative cultures. A second option is to maintain that China and Egypt favor different, and better, ideals than democratic deliberation. A third option, and the one that I endorse, is to…
Promoting Critical Islam
Critical Islam is an intellectual orientation that prizes timeliness and broad-mindedness and a political sensibility that tends to honor majority rule, minority rights, and the good of pluralism. This essay considers how an important European Muslim scholar, Tariq Ramadan, promotes critical Islam in his call for a moratorium on stoning, his argument for the reformation offatwacommittees, and his analysis of the Arab Awakening. The essay argues t…
Islam and the Arab Awakening
A defense of political constructivism
Assemblages and the Multitude
The article enters a heated debate about the ideals and organization of the postmodern left. Hardt and Negri, two key figures in this debate, claim that their concept of the multitude — a revolutionary, proletarian body that organizes singularities — integrates the insights of Deleuze and Lenin. I argue, however, that Deleuze anticipated and resisted a Leninist appropriation of his political theory. This essay challenges the widely accepted assum…
Democracy and National Education Standards
This article intervenes in the debate about whether democracies should adopt national education standards. For many democrats, national education standards may promote economic growth, social justice, and a common set of interests. In this article, I reconstruct John Dewey's warning against oligarchs using standardization to control the schools as well as his argument that democracy requires student, teacher, and community autonomy. The article a…
Islam and the Arab Awakening
Democracy, Federal Power, and Education Reform
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A defense of political constructivism
Constructing the Space of Testimony
How do we conceptualize distinctions between religious–political territories in the contemporary world when old categories—such as Islam and the West, or dar al-Islam and dar al-harb—precipitate misunderstandings and conflicts? In this essay, I consider Tariq Ramadan’s argument that Muslims must enact an intellectual transformation along the lines of Kant’s Copernican revolution and thence create concepts—such as the space of testimony ( dar al-s…
The right to dream
Do Americans have a right to believe that the country is making racial progress? Conservatives sometimes answer yes and argue that the country is achieving Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of a color‐blind society. Afropessimists answer no and point to the continuing problems of police terror, mass incarceration, and poverty among Black Americans. This article unearths King's 1952 term paper on the pragmatists to reveal an early engagement with Wil…
Rawls and the Kantian Ethos
John Rawls had a life-long interest in Kant. To provide a new perspective on Rawls's political thinking, to illuminate Kant's legacy for political theory, and to contribute to current debates about the Enlightenment, I track how Rawls interprets and transforms Kant's legacy. In this essay, I show how Rawls reconceptualizes four key Kantian activities: the identification of the problem, the engagement with common sense, the construction of princip…
Redefining Kant's Legacy
Can the Multitude Save the Left
Can the Multitude Save the Left? Nicholas Tampio (bio) Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire(New York: The Penguin Press, 2004), 427pages. The multitude, the hero of Hardt and Negri’s 2000 book Empire, remained cloaked in shadows. The purpose of that book was rather to illuminate the multitude’s enemy: Empire. Empire is the new sovereign power that governs the world. Empire comprises the concrete insti…
Writing Political Theory
In 2003–2004 I served as the assistant editor of Political Theory . During my term I reviewed hundreds of manuscripts, read scores of outside reviews, and communicated regularly with Stephen White (the editor) about the criteria of a successful manuscript and the direction of the discipline. To aid graduate students looking to publish, as well as others, I offer several principles to facilitate writing and submitting a political theory essay. Nic…
Redefining Kant's Legacy
Rawls and the Kantian Ethos
John Rawls had a life-long interest in Kant. To provide a new perspective on Rawls's political thinking, to illuminate Kant's legacy for political theory, and to contribute to current debates about the Enlightenment, I track how Rawls interprets and transforms Kant's legacy. In this essay, I show how Rawls reconceptualizes four key Kantian activities: the identification of the problem, the engagement with common sense, the construction of princip…
Assemblages and the Multitude
The article enters a heated debate about the ideals and organization of the postmodern left. Hardt and Negri, two key figures in this debate, claim that their concept of the multitude — a revolutionary, proletarian body that organizes singularities — integrates the insights of Deleuze and Lenin. I argue, however, that Deleuze anticipated and resisted a Leninist appropriation of his political theory. This essay challenges the widely accepted assum…
The Politics of the Eternal Return
The Politics of the Eternal Return Nicholas Tampio (bio) Nathan Widder. Reflections on Time and Politics. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. $45.00 (hardcover), 216 pp. ISBN: 978-0271033945 In Nietzsche and Philosophy, Gilles Deleuze distinguishes two aspects of the eternal return. First, the eternal return is a cosmological and physical doctrine that posits a world of pure becoming. The world as we know it has re…
Two faces of political liberalism
Constructing the Space of Testimony
How do we conceptualize distinctions between religious–political territories in the contemporary world when old categories—such as Islam and the West, or dar al-Islam and dar al-harb—precipitate misunderstandings and conflicts? In this essay, I consider Tariq Ramadan’s argument that Muslims must enact an intellectual transformation along the lines of Kant’s Copernican revolution and thence create concepts—such as the space of testimony ( dar al-s…
A defense of political constructivism
Promoting Critical Islam
Critical Islam is an intellectual orientation that prizes timeliness and broad-mindedness and a political sensibility that tends to honor majority rule, minority rights, and the good of pluralism. This essay considers how an important European Muslim scholar, Tariq Ramadan, promotes critical Islam in his call for a moratorium on stoning, his argument for the reformation offatwacommittees, and his analysis of the Arab Awakening. The essay argues t…
Islam and the Arab Awakening
Islamic Political Thought
Islamic political thought is a tradition of conceptualizing human affairs that originates with the Prophet Muhammad (570–632 ce ) in seventh‐century Arabia. In his lifetime Muhammad recited the Qur'an and established a precedent (sunna) that Muslims ever since have taken as a guide for how to establish a just community. In the following centuries Muslims spread the Islamic way of life ( din ) across the Middle East, North Africa, southern Europe,…
Entering Deleuze's Political Vision
How can Deleuzians make his philosophy as accessible as possible to political theorists and democratic publics? This essay provides principles to enter Deleuze's political vision, namely, to research the etymology of words, to discover the image beneath concepts, to diagram schemata using rigid lines, supple lines and lines of flight, and to construct rules that balance experimentation and caution. The essay then employs this method to explicate …
What if the Pious Don’t Want to Deliberate
What should political theorists do when they travel beyond the West and find that ordinary people do not want to reflect upon their political commitments? One option is to do rehabilitative political theory and argue that China and Egypt, say, already possess deliberative cultures. A second option is to maintain that China and Egypt favor different, and better, ideals than democratic deliberation. A third option, and the one that I endorse, is to…
Green Allies
This essay addresses the question of how to build political coalitions to address global warming. For speculative realists such as Levi Bryant, responding to climate change demands materialist ontologies that recognize the efficacy of things themselves, e.g. fossil fuels. And yet, I argue, Bryant does not sufficiently address the political assignment of building political coalitions with people who endorse different ontologies. To illuminate this…
Bonnie Honig, Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics
In the 1980s and 1990s, a central debate in academic political theory was between liberals and communitarians, Kantians and Hegelians, Rawls and his critics. Bonnie Honig’s Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (1993) disrupted this debate and argued that surface disagreements conceal an underlying consensus that the purpose of political theory is to answer, once and for all, the fundamental political questions. Drawing upon and trans…
Political Theory and the Untimely
Democracy, Federal Power, and Education Reform
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Who Won the Math Wars
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Democracy and National Education Standards
This article intervenes in the debate about whether democracies should adopt national education standards. For many democrats, national education standards may promote economic growth, social justice, and a common set of interests. In this article, I reconstruct John Dewey's warning against oligarchs using standardization to control the schools as well as his argument that democracy requires student, teacher, and community autonomy. The article a…
On the Coptic question
What if Neoliberalism Captures the Human Rights Establishment? Sustainable Development Goal 4 and the Global Education Reform Movement
Is Perpetual Peace Possible
War for peace
The misguided quest for a constitutional right to education
The Supreme Court ruled in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973) that there is no constitutional right to education, but that has not stopped families and education activists from arguing that this right is implicit in the Fourteenth Amendment. Nicholas Tampio contends that, based upon the history of federal involvement in education, a constitutional right to education would likely lead to an increase in high-stakes testing.…
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