Patchen Markell
Biographic Data
| ID | 95955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patchen Markell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patchen |
| FAMILY NAME | Markell |
| SIGNATURE | MARKELL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-8846-6936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 242 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Kirstie McClure and the Textures of Political Thought in advance
Drawing on one of Kirstie McClure’s unpublished essays on John Locke’s use of language in his letters from exile in Holland, and recalling her fondness for an intriguing image from the frontispiece of John Bulwer’s seventeenth-century study of gesture, Chirologia, this essay reflects on the relationship between McClure’s unusual approach to the interpretation of early modern political thought, rooted in the study of rhetoric and print culture, an…
The Outdoor Condition: Reading Arendt on a Warming Planet
Is Hannah Arendt's political thought relevant to the contemporary planetary situation? This article draws on The Human Condition and some of Arendt's ancient and modern sources to answer this question, using a phenomenological distinction between outdoors and indoors to make sense of three likely types of artificial adaptation to a warming planet. Arendt's account of the importance of the “body-bound senses” of an “earth-bound creature” need not …
Anonymous glory
Hannah Arendt’s political theory is often understood to rest on a celebration of action, the memorable words and deeds of named individuals, over against the anonymous processes constitutive of ‘labor’ and ‘society’. Yet at key moments in The Human Condition and The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt seems to signal a different relationship between political action and anonymity; and she does so in part via citations of the novels of William Faul…
Politics and the Case of Poetry: Arendt on Brecht
Hannah Arendt's essay on Bertolt Brecht has often been understood as an indictment of Brecht's postwar accommodation with the Stalinist regime in East Germany, in line with Arendt's supposed commitment to a firm separation between poetry and politics. Offering the first full reconstruction of the transnational history of Arendt's writing on Brecht, this article shows instead that Arendt's essay was a defense of Brecht against the polemics it is o…
Domestic homologies and household politics: A comment on Patricia Owens’s Economy of Force
A Voice of One’s Own: Aesthetics, Politics, and Maturity
Bound by Recognition
The Insufficiency of Non-Domination
This essay argues that the neo-Roman republican principle of “non-domination,” as developed in the recent work of Philip Pettit, cannot serve as a single over-arching political ideal, because it responds to only one of two important dimensions of concern about human agency. Through critical engagements with several aspects of Pettit's work, ranging from his philosophical account of freedom as “discursive control” to his appropriation of the disti…
Iris Marion Young
Iris' written work has been very widely admired; she has obviously helped shape the field of democratic political theory; she has deeply influenced students. The discussion of this work will go on in books and articles until her ideas have been fully absorbed. Here I will say a little about my particular experience of her collegiality. I was Iris' junior colleague at Chicago for six years. I met Iris eight years ago this week, under a portico out…
Ontology, Recognition, and Politics: A Reply
The Rule of the People: Arendt,Archê, and Democracy
This article presents a novel critical account of a key concept in democratic theory, "rule," via an unorthodox interpretation of Hannah Arendt's work. Many theorists treat democracy as one type of regime; others, stressing the importance of unruliness to democratic politics, challenge the reduction of democracy to a form of rule. Although this debate remains caught within conventional oppositions between order, closure, and continuity; and inter…
The Art of the Possible
Tragic Recognition: Action and Identity in Antigone and Aristotle
Introduction: Violence, Redemption, and the Liberal Imagination
V iolence haunts liberal political thought
Making Affect Safe for Democracy: On “Constitutional Patriotism
The past few years have witnessed rediscovery of an old distinction between and nationalisms. This renaissance has been driven in part by new prominence of nationalism on world political scene in wake of events of 1989. Yet distinction between civic and ethnic nationalisms, however timely, has been taken up with special eagerness by political theorists because it also speaks to a problem in theory of liberal democracy that antedates most recent w…
The Recognition of Politics: A Comment on Emcke and Tully
Contesting Consensus: Rereading Habermas on the Public Sphere
Making Affect Safe for Democracy: On “Constitutional Patriotism
The past few years have witnessed rediscovery of an old distinction between and nationalisms. This renaissance has been driven in part by new prominence of nationalism on world political scene in wake of events of 1989. Yet distinction between civic and ethnic nationalisms, however timely, has been taken up with special eagerness by political theorists because it also speaks to a problem in theory of liberal democracy that antedates most recent w…
The Insufficiency of Non-Domination
This essay argues that the neo-Roman republican principle of “non-domination,” as developed in the recent work of Philip Pettit, cannot serve as a single over-arching political ideal, because it responds to only one of two important dimensions of concern about human agency. Through critical engagements with several aspects of Pettit's work, ranging from his philosophical account of freedom as “discursive control” to his appropriation of the disti…
The Rule of the People: Arendt,Archê, and Democracy
This article presents a novel critical account of a key concept in democratic theory, "rule," via an unorthodox interpretation of Hannah Arendt's work. Many theorists treat democracy as one type of regime; others, stressing the importance of unruliness to democratic politics, challenge the reduction of democracy to a form of rule. Although this debate remains caught within conventional oppositions between order, closure, and continuity; and inter…
Contesting Consensus: Rereading Habermas on the Public Sphere
The Recognition of Politics: A Comment on Emcke and Tully
Tragic Recognition: Action and Identity in Antigone and Aristotle
Introduction: Violence, Redemption, and the Liberal Imagination
V iolence haunts liberal political thought
Anonymous glory
Hannah Arendt’s political theory is often understood to rest on a celebration of action, the memorable words and deeds of named individuals, over against the anonymous processes constitutive of ‘labor’ and ‘society’. Yet at key moments in The Human Condition and The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt seems to signal a different relationship between political action and anonymity; and she does so in part via citations of the novels of William Faul…
Politics and the Case of Poetry: Arendt on Brecht
Hannah Arendt's essay on Bertolt Brecht has often been understood as an indictment of Brecht's postwar accommodation with the Stalinist regime in East Germany, in line with Arendt's supposed commitment to a firm separation between poetry and politics. Offering the first full reconstruction of the transnational history of Arendt's writing on Brecht, this article shows instead that Arendt's essay was a defense of Brecht against the polemics it is o…
Ontology, Recognition, and Politics: A Reply
Domestic homologies and household politics: A comment on Patricia Owens’s Economy of Force
Iris Marion Young
Iris' written work has been very widely admired; she has obviously helped shape the field of democratic political theory; she has deeply influenced students. The discussion of this work will go on in books and articles until her ideas have been fully absorbed. Here I will say a little about my particular experience of her collegiality. I was Iris' junior colleague at Chicago for six years. I met Iris eight years ago this week, under a portico out…
Contesting Consensus: Rereading Habermas on the Public Sphere
Making Affect Safe for Democracy: On “Constitutional Patriotism
The past few years have witnessed rediscovery of an old distinction between and nationalisms. This renaissance has been driven in part by new prominence of nationalism on world political scene in wake of events of 1989. Yet distinction between civic and ethnic nationalisms, however timely, has been taken up with special eagerness by political theorists because it also speaks to a problem in theory of liberal democracy that antedates most recent w…
The Recognition of Politics: A Comment on Emcke and Tully
The Art of the Possible
Tragic Recognition: Action and Identity in Antigone and Aristotle
Introduction: Violence, Redemption, and the Liberal Imagination
V iolence haunts liberal political thought
Ontology, Recognition, and Politics: A Reply
The Rule of the People: Arendt,Archê, and Democracy
This article presents a novel critical account of a key concept in democratic theory, "rule," via an unorthodox interpretation of Hannah Arendt's work. Many theorists treat democracy as one type of regime; others, stressing the importance of unruliness to democratic politics, challenge the reduction of democracy to a form of rule. Although this debate remains caught within conventional oppositions between order, closure, and continuity; and inter…
Iris Marion Young
Iris' written work has been very widely admired; she has obviously helped shape the field of democratic political theory; she has deeply influenced students. The discussion of this work will go on in books and articles until her ideas have been fully absorbed. Here I will say a little about my particular experience of her collegiality. I was Iris' junior colleague at Chicago for six years. I met Iris eight years ago this week, under a portico out…
The Insufficiency of Non-Domination
This essay argues that the neo-Roman republican principle of “non-domination,” as developed in the recent work of Philip Pettit, cannot serve as a single over-arching political ideal, because it responds to only one of two important dimensions of concern about human agency. Through critical engagements with several aspects of Pettit's work, ranging from his philosophical account of freedom as “discursive control” to his appropriation of the disti…
Bound by Recognition
A Voice of One’s Own: Aesthetics, Politics, and Maturity
Politics and the Case of Poetry: Arendt on Brecht
Hannah Arendt's essay on Bertolt Brecht has often been understood as an indictment of Brecht's postwar accommodation with the Stalinist regime in East Germany, in line with Arendt's supposed commitment to a firm separation between poetry and politics. Offering the first full reconstruction of the transnational history of Arendt's writing on Brecht, this article shows instead that Arendt's essay was a defense of Brecht against the polemics it is o…
Domestic homologies and household politics: A comment on Patricia Owens’s Economy of Force
Anonymous glory
Hannah Arendt’s political theory is often understood to rest on a celebration of action, the memorable words and deeds of named individuals, over against the anonymous processes constitutive of ‘labor’ and ‘society’. Yet at key moments in The Human Condition and The Origins of Totalitarianism, Arendt seems to signal a different relationship between political action and anonymity; and she does so in part via citations of the novels of William Faul…
The Outdoor Condition: Reading Arendt on a Warming Planet
Is Hannah Arendt's political thought relevant to the contemporary planetary situation? This article draws on The Human Condition and some of Arendt's ancient and modern sources to answer this question, using a phenomenological distinction between outdoors and indoors to make sense of three likely types of artificial adaptation to a warming planet. Arendt's account of the importance of the “body-bound senses” of an “earth-bound creature” need not …
Kirstie McClure and the Textures of Political Thought in advance
Drawing on one of Kirstie McClure’s unpublished essays on John Locke’s use of language in his letters from exile in Holland, and recalling her fondness for an intriguing image from the frontispiece of John Bulwer’s seventeenth-century study of gesture, Chirologia, this essay reflects on the relationship between McClure’s unusual approach to the interpretation of early modern political thought, rooted in the study of rhetoric and print culture, an…
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