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Teaching Political Theory as a Vocation

Teaching Political Theory as a Vocation Teaching Political Theory as a Vocation s usan m cwilli ams My father studied political science at Berkeley during the 1950s, first as an undergraduate and then, aer a b ft rief stint in the Army, as a graduate stu- dent. To hear Dad tell it, to have been in Berkeley in the 1950s was to have been in an intellectually and politically transformative place—a place far more intellectually and politically transformative than even the Berkeley of the ’60s, feted though that decade at that university has been. For my father, perhaps no single person was more responsible for that atmosphere of intellectual and political transformation than Sheldon Wolin. When Dad came back to campus to pursue his PhD, he was sure that he was going to study international relations, and he was unsure whether he would follow up his doctoral degree by returning to the military or remain- ing in the academy. It took very little time for the recently arrived Wolin, along with Norman Jacobson and Jack Schaar, to unsettle and resettle all my father’s plans. In short order, my father changed scholarly tracks, switching his focus from the study of international relations to the study of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Good Society Penn State University Press

Teaching Political Theory as a Vocation

The Good Society , Volume 24 (2) – Jun 23, 2016

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Teaching Political Theory as a Vocation s usan m cwilli ams My father studied political science at Berkeley during the 1950s, first as an undergraduate and then, aer a b ft rief stint in the Army, as a graduate stu- dent. To hear Dad tell it, to have been in Berkeley in the 1950s was to have been in an intellectually and politically transformative place—a place far more intellectually and politically transformative than even the Berkeley of the ’60s, feted though that decade at that university has been. For my father, perhaps no single person was more responsible for that atmosphere of intellectual and political transformation than Sheldon Wolin. When Dad came back to campus to pursue his PhD, he was sure that he was going to study international relations, and he was unsure whether he would follow up his doctoral degree by returning to the military or remain- ing in the academy. It took very little time for the recently arrived Wolin, along with Norman Jacobson and Jack Schaar, to unsettle and resettle all my father’s plans. In short order, my father changed scholarly tracks, switching his focus from the study of international relations to the study of

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Published: Jun 23, 2016

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