Geoffrey Kurtz

Geoffrey Kurtz is Associate Professor of Political Science at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), and is the author of Jean Jaurès: The Inner Life of Social Democracy (Penn State University Press, 2014).

Articles by Geoffrey Kurtz

Real Communities and Democratic Theory

If we don’t experience full, unqualified “concrete, historical community,” then we won’t experience full, unqualified “genuine deliberation.”
September 27, 2024

After the Second Cheer: A Review of Two Cheers for Politics

Purdy has a palpable affection for what he calls “the preservative work of being together.” Beginning again from that affection might allow Purdy and his readers to find a fuller…
February 10, 2023

How to Be a Liberal-Socialist-Conservative

The mark by which we recognize a rightly ordered way of thinking about politics, it seems to me, is that such a way of thinking should recall us to the…
November 7, 2022