Ruth Abbey

Rank

Regular Faculty - Associate Professor

Field(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 - 4:30pm

Contact 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

Website(s)

http://nd.edu/rabbey1/