Bryan Garsten

Bryan Garsten is Professor of Political Science. He received his Ph.D. from the Government Department at Harvard University and taught at Williams College before coming to Yale. He writes about the history of political thought and contemporary political theory, with a special interest in the themes of persuasion, judgment, political representation and religion. His first book, Saving Persuasion: a defense of rhetoric and judgment (Harvard 2006), earned the First Book Prize from the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association, the Thomas J. Wilson Prize from Harvard University Press, and the Delba Winthrop Award for Excellence in Political Science. In 2008 he received the Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching. He is currently serving as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the program in Ethics, Politics & Economics.
In addition to his writings on rhetoric, Professor Garsten has written a series of articles on the nineteenth-century French liberal Benjamin Constant, as well as pieces on Hobbes, Tocqueville and Hannah Arendt. He is currently finishing a book called The Heart of a Heartless World that draws from nineteenth-century thought a perspective on what representative governments require from their citizens in the way of citizenship and religion.

Campus address: 115 Prospect St., Rosenkranz Hall, Room 422
Phone: 436-3696
Email: bryan.garsten@yale.edu

Personal Web Page: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~bg246/index.html