Bernard Yack (born 1952) is a

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born American political theorist. Bernard-Yack-e1491925651145

He received his B.A. from the

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and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from

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, where he was a student of

Judith Shklar Judith Nisse Shklar (September 24, 1928 – September 17, 1992) was a philosopher and political theorist who studied the history of political thought, notably that of the Enlightenment period. She was appointed the John Cowles Professor of Governm ...

. Yack has taught at numerous universities including

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and the

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. He is the author of works of political and social philosophy such as ''The Problems of a Political Animal'', and ''The Longing for Total Revolution: The Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche''. His most recent book is titled ''Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community''. He is currently the Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy at

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Selected publications

Yack, Bernard. Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Yack, Bernard. The Fetishism of Modernities: Epochal Self-Consciousness in Contemporary Social and Political Thought. University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. Yack, Bernard. Liberalism without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar. University of California Press, 1996. Yack, Bernard. The Problems of a Political Animal: Community, Conflict, and Justice in Aristotelian Political Thought. University of California Press, 1993. Yack, Bernard. The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche. Princeton University Press, 1986.

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1952 births University of Toronto alumni Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Scholars of nationalism Moral psychology Canadian political philosophers Brandeis University faculty Princeton University faculty Living people Jewish philosophers 20th-century Canadian philosophers 21st-century Canadian philosophers {{philosopher-stub