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Professor of Politics
The Arthur G. Coons Distinguished Professor
of the History of Ideas

Ph.D. Stanford University, 1976

 

Office:  North Swan 202
Phone:  x2869
E-mail:  boesche@oxy.edu

2009-10 Courses

 

      

Roger Boesche teaches the history of European and American political thought. He has won the Loftsgordon Award (the senior class teaching award) twice, the Sterling Award given by his faculty colleagues for teaching and publication, and the new Linda and Todd White Teaching Prize.  He has published numerous articles and five books: Alexis de Tocqueville: Selected Letters on Politics and Society (1985), The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville (1987), Theories of  Tyranny: From Plato to Arendt (1996), and Tocqueville's Road Map: Methodology, Liberalism, Revolution, and Despotism (2006).  For several years, he was researching political thought in ancient India and China, which resulted in several articles and The First Great Political Realist:  Kautilya and his Arthashastra (2002).

    

Curriculum Vitae

 

Classes

Fall 2009

Pols 253  European Political Thought: From Nietzsche to the Present
Pols 255  How Tyrannies Work
 

Spring 2010

CSP 50  From the Ten Commandments to the Death of God

 

 

 

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