Alexander Duff

Senior Fellow

Biography

Alexander Duff is a senior fellow at the Civitas Institute and an associate professor in the School of Civic Leadership at UT Austin. He focuses on the history of political philosophy, and his writings on classical, modern, and contemporary political philosophy have been published widely in both scholarly and popular publications. He has held fellowships from the Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and Public Life at the University of Notre Dame, and from the Program for the Study of Western Heritage at Boston College. The author of Heidegger and Politics: The Ontology of Radical Discontent (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Duff is a co-founder of the Association for the History of Political Thought, an academic organization devoted to the study of the history of political theory. He received an M.A. from Carlton College and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame.

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