Political Science Faculty

Nasser Behnegar

Associate Professor

Director of Graduate Studies

Biography

Nasser Behnegar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at 艾可直播 College. He received his M.A. in economics and Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago. The themes of his research include the foundations of liberalism, the relation between religion and politics, and the foundations of the social sciences.

He is the author of Leo Strauss, Max Weber, and the Scientific Study of Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and is currently working on a book-length study of the liberalism of John Locke.听He teaches courses on classical and early modern political philosophy, Islamic political philosophy, Shakespeare's political thought, and Nietzsche.

Publication Highlight

鈥淟iberalism and Christianity: Locke鈥檚 use of the Bible in the听Second Treatise,鈥 in听Civil听Religion and Modern Political Philosophy, edited by Steven Frankel and Martin Yaffe, Penn State University Press, 2020.

Chinese translation of听Leo Strauss, Max Weber, and the Scientific Study of Politics, Hermes, 2010.

Leo Strauss, Max Weber, and the Scientific Study of Politics, The University of Chicago Press, 2003.