John Holzwarth

Assistant Professor of Political Science

department: Political Science
office: 328 John R. Howard Hall
phone: 503-768-7604
e-mail: holzwrth@lclark.edu
mail: Mailstop 12

Specializations:

• Western Politics
• Political Theory
• History of Political Thought
• German Political Thought

John Holzwarth teaches political theory, approaching the discipline both historically, through courses that explore the great political philosophers from ancient Greece to the present, and normatively, through courses centered on major debates about democratic theory and political ethics in the modern world. His current research explores the value of cultural attachments as an existential phenomenon, with particular emphasis on the writings of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Other recent writings focus on Rousseau, Emerson, and issues of religious conscience in liberal society. He is a graduate of Colgate University (A.B. 1993) and Princeton University (M.A. 2000, Ph.D. 2004).