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Robert Faulkner teaches and writes chiefly about modern political philosophy and American political and legal thought. He is author of The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics (2007), Francis Bacon and the Project of Progress (1993), Richard Hooker and the Politics of a Christian England (1981), and The Jurisprudence of John Marshall (1968). He co-edited America at Risk (forthcoming, 2008) and Marshall's Life of George Washington (2000). He has written recently about Locke's republicanism and his critique of religion, Bacon's scientific method and his use of the essay as a literary form, and the philosophy of the Enlightenment generally. He just a completed his study of great political ambition, which includes chapters on Xenophon's Cyrus, Plato's Alcibiades, Aristotle's virtue of magnanimity, and other topics. Faulkner was a Marshall Scholar and has held fellowships from the Ford, Mellon, Earhart, and Bradley foundations and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a past Chair of the Department and a past president of the New England Political Science Association. Office: McGuinn 213 |
