Ruth Abbey
Rank
Regular Faculty - Associate ProfessorField(s)
Political Theory
Education
B.A., Monash University; M.A. McGill University , Ph.D., McGill University
Research and Teaching Interests
Nietzsche, Charles Taylor, Feminist Political Thought, Liberal Political Thought, the Internet and Politics.
Biography
Author of Nietzsche's Middle Period (Oxford University Press); Philosophy Now: Charles Taylor (Acumen Publishing and Princeton University Press); The Return of Feminist Liberalism (Acumen Publishing). Editor of Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Charles Taylor (Cambridge University Press); Feminist Interpretations of Rawls (forthcoming). She has also written a number of journal articles, ranging from topics such as contemporary liberalism, to conceptions of marriage, to animal ethics, to cyberdemocracy. She has been the recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship and Research fellowships at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and the Murphy Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs. Currently working on the status of children in liberal political thought.
Office Hours
Wednesdays 2:00pm - 4:00pm & Thursdays 3:30pm - 4:30pmContact Information
Office: 415 Decio
Phone: 574-631-6084
Fax: 574-631-4405
Email: Ruth.M.Abbey.2@nd.edu
Mailing Address
Department of Political Science
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
