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Joshua Cherniss
Biographical Note:
I'm a third-year graduate student studying political theory, having studied political philosophy at Yale (BA 2002) and Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford (DPhil expected 2008). I'm broadly interested in the history of political thought (mainly since the 17th century); liberal political theory; British political thought; the concept of freedom/liberty; theories of the purposes and limits of politics; philosophies of history and their relationship to political theory; and the ethics of political action. When I do focus on anything in particular, it tends to be on the thought of Isaiah Berlin, and on mid-20th century political thought. Other current interests – which may or may not come to anything – include: the idea of political moderation, and its paradoxes; the role of the idea of choice in political and moral thought, and how it came to be so central a concept in both liberal theory, and everyday life; and the problems posed for, and influence exercised on, liberal political theory by deeply illiberal politics, particularly eruptions of political violence and tyranny.
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