What about someone from Duke?
Bagg? Doesn't fit the job description at all.
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MO brilliant work on Bernstein. SZ superb scholarship on Schmitt. And many others would be a great fit. Including scholars working on Arendt.
MO doesn't have any decent publications, though he's certainly well-connected in Oxford. Don't know who SZ is but Schmitt and Arendt are hardly part of the critical tradition.
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I think the people who keep mentioning MO are making some kind of cruel joke. Lay off him. Yes he's super privileged but still a postdoc on the market.
Anyway everyone is just mentioning juniors but it's worth considering that this job could go to someone quite senior. Basically it's a wide open search (except the job will go to someone they know already, as per usual in that place).
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That's a stretch. He does realism and democratic theory. There are both realists and democratic theorists who are much more into critical theory.
Well he calls himself a critical realist theorist of democracy. So he may still be a good fit. Also he’s at Oxford right now. Never underestimate how much that matters.
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That's a stretch. He does realism and democratic theory. There are both realists and democratic theorists who are much more into critical theory.
Well he calls himself a critical realist theorist of democracy. So he may still be a good fit. Also he’s at Oxford right now. Never underestimate how much that matters.
If he's already at OU, he'll almost certainly be a finalist. It's not like he's a marginal candidate.
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That's a stretch. He does realism and democratic theory. There are both realists and democratic theorists who are much more into critical theory.
Well he calls himself a critical realist theorist of democracy. So he may still be a good fit. Also he’s at Oxford right now. Never underestimate how much that matters.
Clever branding on his part. But someone who defends liberal democracy is not critical in any relevant sense.
Agreed on the importance of being at Oxford.
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That's a stretch. He does realism and democratic theory. There are both realists and democratic theorists who are much more into critical theory.
Well he calls himself a critical realist theorist of democracy. So he may still be a good fit. Also he’s at Oxford right now. Never underestimate how much that matters.
I like his stuff but he's a run of the mill realist/democratic theorist building on the work of others more than he's prepared to admit and with a knack for publishing in very good places. Respect, but he's no critical theorist, not even of the watered down Habermasian kind. No theory of ideology, no social theory, none of the usual ingredients of the critical tradition.
His fancy Yale BA will sure help at Oxford though.
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That's a stretch. He does realism and democratic theory. There are both realists and democratic theorists who are much more into critical theory.
Well he calls himself a critical realist theorist of democracy. So he may still be a good fit. Also he’s at Oxford right now. Never underestimate how much that matters.I like his stuff but he's a run of the mill realist/democratic theorist building on the work of others more than he's prepared to admit and with a knack for publishing in very good places. Respect, but he's no critical theorist, not even of the watered down Habermasian kind. No theory of ideology, no social theory, none of the usual ingredients of the critical tradition.
His fancy Yale BA will sure help at Oxford though.Yale BA and Oxford Postdoc
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But aren't Oxford a bit embarrassed about their insular reputation? Must they always hire their own JRFs?
Must they? No.
Will they? Maybe.Hiring the JRFs seem fine. In fact, I don't know why hiring your own postdocs wouldn't be a good thing. The problem is hiring people like PB and AS in 90% of the theory spots for decades. They're both doing interesting enough work, but PB has been at Oxford since he was 18 and AS only spent a few years away from the place since she was 22.
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Hiring the JRFs seem fine. In fact, I don't know why hiring your own postdocs wouldn't be a good thing. The problem is hiring people like PB and AS in 90% of the theory spots for decades. They're both doing interesting enough work, but PB has been at Oxford since he was 18 and AS only spent a few years away from the place since she was 22.
This is confused. AS was hired in philosophy, not theory. And hiring someone who got a permanent job elsewhere and was there for three years is much more defensible than hiring one’s own postdoc. I’ll give you the PB hire, which is nepotism par excellence.
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Hiring the JRFs seem fine. In fact, I don't know why hiring your own postdocs wouldn't be a good thing. The problem is hiring people like PB and AS in 90% of the theory spots for decades. They're both doing interesting enough work, but PB has been at Oxford since he was 18 and AS only spent a few years away from the place since she was 22.
This is confused. AS was hired in philosophy, not theory. And hiring someone who got a permanent job elsewhere and was there for three years is much more defensible than hiring one’s own postdoc. I’ll give you the PB hire, which is nepotism par excellence.
At least PB has a good publication record, even though it's super boring. But think about people like DB (Balliol), who barely has the publication record to be employed at a middling place. But of course he's an Oxonian through and through.
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That's a stretch. He does realism and democratic theory. There are both realists and democratic theorists who are much more into critical theory.
Well he calls himself a critical realist theorist of democracy. So he may still be a good fit. Also he’s at Oxford right now. Never underestimate how much that matters.I like his stuff but he's a run of the mill realist/democratic theorist building on the work of others more than he's prepared to admit and with a knack for publishing in very good places. Respect, but he's no critical theorist, not even of the watered down Habermasian kind. No theory of ideology, no social theory, none of the usual ingredients of the critical tradition.
His fancy Yale BA will sure help at Oxford though.It would be just like Oxford to give a critical theory job to a liberal with ultra-elite pedigree.
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No point speculating. Like HYP hires, Oxbridge hires are incomprehensible and reputation-driven, not achievement-driven. Look at a hire like SS at Oxford: hired as a JRF with no publications, now an associate prof and six years post phd she has just three articles and two book chapters.