Politics and International Relations

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Photo of Jonathan Marks

Jonathan Marks

Jonathan Marks teaches political philosophy.

Marks has published on modern and contemporary political philosophy in journals like the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of American Political Science, and the Review of Politics. He is the author of Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education and Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean Jacques Rousseau. He co-edited and contributed to Principle and Prudence in Western Political Thought.

Marks also has written on higher education for InsideHigherEd, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Weekly Standard, and the Wall Street Journal. He is a constributor to the Commentary Magazine blog.

Department

Politics and International Relations

Degrees

  • B.A., The University of Chicago
  • M.A., Ph.D., The University of Chicago

Teaching

American Political Thought
What is Love?
Modern Political Philosophy

Research Interests

Jean Jacques Rousseau
Communitarianism
Politics and Education

Recent Work

Keep Rowing: Amitai Etzioni on History
Principles and Practice in Locke’s Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Rousseau’s Challenge to Locke (and to us)