Ralph Lerner (born 1928) is an American political philosopher.
Lerner was born in Chicago, and attended the
University of Chicago
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for his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in political science. His Ph.D. was advised by
Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss (, ; September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was a German-American political philosopher who specialized in classical political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later emigrated from Germany to the United States. ...
. Lerner later joined the Chicago faculty, where he was named the Benjamin Franklin Professorship until 2003, when he was granted emeritus status.
Books
*''Naïve Readings: Reveilles Political and Philosophic'',
University of Chicago Press
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, 2016
*''Playing the Fool: Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times'',
University of Chicago Press
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, 2009
*''Maimonides' Empire of Light: Popular Enlightenment in an Age of Belief'',
University of Chicago Press
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, 2000
*''Revolutions Revisited: Two Faces of the Politics of Enlightenment'',
University of North Carolina Press
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, 1994
*''The Thinking Revolutionary: Principle and Practice in the New Republic'',
Cornell University Press
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, 1987
*''The Founders' Constitution'', edited with Philip B. Kurland, 1987
*''Averroes on Plato's 'Republic, translated by Ralph Lerner,
Cornell University Press
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, 1974
*''Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook'',
Cornell University Press
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, 1963
References
1928 births
Living people
Writers from Chicago
University of Chicago alumni
University of Chicago faculty
American political philosophers
20th-century American philosophers
21st-century American philosophers
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
Philosophers from Illinois
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