Ari Kohen

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Ari Kohen

Schlesinger Professor of Social Justice, Director of the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies Political Science University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
LPH 325 512 N. 12th St.
Lincoln NE 68588-0322
Phone
402-472-2425 On-campus 2-2425
Email
akohen2@unl.edu

Dr. Kohen teaches political philosophy at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research focuses principally on classical and on contemporary political thought. His first book examines the philosophical grounding of the idea of human rights; his new book looks at the ways in which we think about heroic behavior and the most choice-worthy lives.

Education

  • Ph.D., Duke University, 2004

Research Areas

  • Contemporary and Ancient Political Theory
  • Human Rights
  • Ethnic and Intrastate Conflict
  • Restorative and Transitional Justice

Current Research

  • Articles on social justice education; technology and racism; and extremist challenges to political liberalism.

Awards and Accomplishments

  • 2006 Irmgard Coninx Research Prize, a three-month fellowship at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
  • College Distinguished Teaching Award, 2011
  • Articles in Human Rights Review, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Journal of Human Rights, Polis, and Social Justice Research

Recent Publications

  • “Plato’s Philosophic Vision: The Difficult Choices of the Socratic Life.” 28 Polis 1. 2011.
  • “A Non-Religious Basis for the Idea of Human Rights: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as Overlapping Consensus.” ed. Thomas Cushman (New York: Routledge).
  • “A Non-Religious Basis for the Idea of Human Rights: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as Overlapping Consensus” in Handbook of Human Rights ed. Thomas Cushman (New York: Routledge).
  • “An Overlapping Consensus on Human Rights and Human Dignity” in Human Rights at the Crossroads ed. Mark Goodale (New York: Oxford).

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