Andrew Douglas teaches courses in political theory and the history of political thought.  He is the author of In the Spirit of Critique: Thinking Politically in the Dialectical Tradition (SUNY Press, forthcoming) and several articles, including a prize-winning essay on the concept of scarcity.  His current work looks at how twentieth century Africana political thought develops in tension with some of the more established European and American intellectual traditions.

Education
Ph.D., in Government, University of Virginia (2008)
M.A., in Government, University of Virginia (2005)
B.A., in Rhetoric and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley (2002)

Selected Publications:

In the Spirit of Critique: Thinking Politically in the Dialectical Tradition (State University of New York Press, 2013)

“C.L.R. James and the Struggle for Humanism,” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Winter 2013)

“In a Milieu of Scarcity: Sartre and the Limits of Political Imagination,” Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 10, No. 3 (August 2011), 354-371 (Joint winner of the Contemporary Political Theory Annual Prize for best article published in 2011)

“Democratic Darkness and Adorno’s Redemptive Criticism,” Philosophy & Social Criticism, Vol. 36, No. 7 (September 2010), 819-836

“Democratizing Dialectics with C.L.R. James,” The Review of Politics, Vol. 70, No. 3 (Summer 2008), 420-441

Contact
Wheeler Hall, Room 301
Ext. 2252
adouglas@morehouse.edu