Alexander Duff
Jack Miller Center Founding Civics Initiative Faculty
Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Alexander S. Duff is associate professor in the School of Civic Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin.
He writes widely in the history of political philosophy, and his publications on classical, modern, and contemporary political philosophy have appeared in both scholarly and popular publications. He has held fellowships from the Civitas Institute, the Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and American Public Life at the University of Notre Dame, and the Program for the Study of the Western Heritage at Boston College.
He is the author of Heidegger and Politics: The Ontology of Radical Discontent. He is a co-founder of the Association for the History of Political Thought, an academic organization devoted to the study of the History of Political Thought.
Dr. Duff received an M.A. from Carleton University and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame.
Research interests:
Heidegger
History of political thought
Political rhetoric
