Peter Stillman is Professor of Political Science at

Vassar College Vassar College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. Founded in 1861 by Matthew Vassar, it was the second degree-granting institution of higher education for women in the United States, closely foll ...

. He has taught there since 1970. He has an extensive range of publications and his interests cover modern political philosophy, especially that related to ecological thought, utopian political theory, and Hegel and

Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 ...

's political philosophy. Stillman has all his academic degrees from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

. Stillman notes that while Marx is often represented as an "economic determinist" (that is he believed economic structures basically determine almost every aspect of human life) and used simple models such as "base"/"superstructure" to support this, and that holding the view that individuals have the scope for meaningful thought and action "determined" by their social context it does not follow from this that there is a "direct causal relationship between "economic" circumstances and spheres such as religion, politics or culture".

Publications

Stillman most noted works include: a book on Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit (1987), a co-edited translation of Rousseau's Confessions (1995), a collection of essays on The New Utopian Politics of

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The Dispossessed ''The Dispossessed'' (in later printings titled ''The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia'') is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. It is one of a small number o ...

(2005), and a special issue of the journal Utopian Studies on Henry Neville's

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(2006). More recent work includes a co-authored book chapter with Adelaide Villmoare entitled "Social Justice after Katrina: The Need for a Revitalized Public Sphere" and a chapter in Andrew Davison and Himadeep Muppidi, eds., Europe and Its Boundaries: Words and Worlds, Within and Beyond. entitled "Hegel as a Colonial, Anti-Colonial, and Post-Colonial Thinker".

External links

Peter Gordon Stillman's CV Department of Political Science Vassar College

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stillman, Peter Living people American political philosophers American political writers American male non-fiction writers Vassar College faculty Yale University alumni Year of birth missing (living people)