John P. McCormick

Prof. John McCormick

John P. McCormick
Ph.D., Chicago, 1995

 Major Areas of Interest:

- Modern Political Thought
- Renaissance Italy
- 20th Century Germany
- Contemporary Democratic Theory
- European Politics

 E-Mail: jpmccorm@uchicago.edu
 Phone: (773) 834-4353
 Office: Pick 422B
 Office hours: By appt.

John P. McCormick is Professor of Political Science. His research and teaching interests include political thought in Renaissance Florence (specifically, Guicciardini and Machiavelli), 19th and 20th century continental political and social theory (with a focus on Weimar Germany and Central European emigres to the US), the philosophy and sociology of law, the normative dimensions of European integration, and contemporary democratic theory. He is the author of Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (Cambridge, 1997), and Weber, Habermas and Transformations of the European State: Constitutional, Social and Supranational Democracy (Cambridge, 2006). Professor McCormick has published numerous articles in scholarly journals such as the American Political Science Review (1992, 1999, 2001, 2006) and Political Theory (1994, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2006). His latest work is Machiavellian Democracy (Cambridge, 2011).

Professor McCormick's vitae can be found here.

Selected Publications:


McCormick Weimar Thought


Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy

Princeton University Press,
2013

(Co-Editor)

Machiavellian Democracy

Machiavellian Democracy

Cambridge University Press, 2011

WHTES

Weber, Habermas, and Transformations of the European State

Cambridge University Press, 2006

MassDemocracy

Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas

Duke University Press, 2002

(Editor)