Craig French

cpf9 at georgetown dot edu

 

Welcome ...

I'm presently a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Georgetown University.  I'm interested in a broad range of themes in both the history of political thought and in contemporary political and social theory.  You can use the links at the top of this page to learn more about my work.


At the moment, I'm mostly preoccupied with debates about globalization, cosmopolitanism and global justice.  I have just begun to write about these topics in a dissertation entitled "Borders, Boundaries and Justice: A Study on the Grounds of Cosmopolitics."  You can find out more about this by clicking on my research page.


Aside from my dissertation, I am also interested more generally in liberal theory and its critics, distributive justice and the "equality of what?" debate, democratic theory, agonism (in value pluralism, and in conceptions of the political), critical theory, nationalism and multiculturalism, normative authority and political legitimacy, and the writings of George Orwell.  From time to time I have also written about Friedrich Nietzsche's contribution to political philosophy.