Jacob Segal

(he/him/his)

Associate Professor of Political Science

I am Associate Professor and Chair of the History, Philosophy and Political Department at Kingsborough Community College

Contact

718-288-0589

Positions

Associate Professor, History, Phillosophy and Political Science, Kingsborough Community College

Education

 

Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science

Columbia University, New York, New York

February 1997

Dissertation: “A Theory of Republican Liberalism:  The Ideas of Temporality and Virtue in Classical Republicanism and the Political Thought of Hannah Arendt and Michael Oakeshott”

Master of Arts in the Social Sciences

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

August 1988

Master’s Thesis:  “Freedom and Individuality in the Political Thought of Michael Oakeshott”

 

Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude

Double Major in History and Political Science

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

May 1987

Honor’s Thesis:  “Positive Freedom and the Pursuit of a Model Life”

Political Science National Honorary Society

Publications

“Freedom and Normalization:  Poststructuralism and the Liberalism of Michael Oakeshott.” American Political Science Review Vol. 97, No. 3 (August 2003):  447-458.      

 

“Virtue and Normalization: Oakeshott, Galston and the Problem of a Liberal Personality.”  Contemporary Political Theory Vol. 10, No 1 (2011):  190-209

 

“Ideology and the Reform of Public Higher Education.”  New Political Science, Vol. 36, No. 4 (December 2014): 489-503.

 

 

“Michael Oakeshott and Michel Foucault:  The Virtuosity of Individuality.” Foucault Studies No 18 (October 2014): 154-172

 

 “A “Delight in Doing:  Individuality and Action in the Political Thought of Hannah Arendt.”  New England Journal of Political Science.  Vol. 3, No 1 (Spring 2007) at http://www.neu.edu/nepsa/journal/archives/volume_number1

 

“The Discipline of Freedom:  Action and Normalization in the Theory and Practice of Liberalism.”  New Political Science Vol.  28 No. 3 (September 2006):  323-334

 

 “Marx, Time and the Deontological Project.” New Political Science Vol. 22, No. 2 (June 2000):  249-263.

 

“A Storm From Paradise:  Liberalism and the Problem of Time.”  Critical Review Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter 1994):  23-48.