John Schaar
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John H. Schaar is an American writer and scholar; He is Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Before teaching at UC Santa Cruz, he taught at UC Berkeley. He also teaches at Deep Springs College as a part of their visiting faculty. He is married to Hannah Pitkin.
Jack has most recently taught three classes: American Political Thought, On Power and American Politics through American Literature.
Schaar has said that practically the whole history of America can be found in Faulkner's "The Bear".
He was raised on a farm in Pennsylvania. He is still alive and teaching.
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Attributed:
- The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created— created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.
- My political ideal is my home town in Vermont, with more sex.
- We [the U.S.] are a nation rich in values.
- A fundamentalist is someone who hates sin more than he loves virtue.
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Publications:
- Loyalty in America
- Escape from Authority: The Perspectives of Erich Fromm
- The Berkeley Rebellion
- Legitimacy in the Modern State
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External links:
- What is Patriotism? at The Nation
- Links at The New York Review of Books
