The Pomona Politics Department
John Seery
- Professor of Politics, 1990
- B.A., Amherst College
- M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- Contact Information
- Office: Carnegie 19
- Phone Number: 909-607-2458
- E-mail: john.seery@pomona.edu
- Classes
- Politics 1A: Classical Political Theory
- Politics 1B: Modern Political Theory
- Politics 10: Political Freedom
- Politics 110: Modernity and Its Critics
- Politics 112: Hannah Arendt: Politics, Love, Violence, Gender
- Politics 114: The Idea of America
- Politics 190C: Senior Seminar in Contemporary Politics and Theory
- Expertise Areas
- Civil Disobedience
- Democratic Theory
- Feminist Politics
- Hell
- Marx
- Nietzsche
- Plato
- Political Theory
- Irony and Politics
- Abortion Politics
- Right to Die Movement
- Weber
- Comedy
- Liberal Arts Education
- Research Interests
- I've written books on the themes of irony, death, and liberal arts education, respectively. My articles have covered a range of topics, from abortion politics to Grant Wood's American Gothic.
- Selected Publications
- America Goes to College: Political Theory for the Liberal Arts (State University of New York Press, 2002)
- Political Theory for Mortals: Shades of Justice, Images of Death (Cornell University Press, 1996)
- "Castles in the Air: An Essay on Political Foundations," Political Theory, 27, 460-490, August 1999
- "Grant Wood's Political Gothic," Theory and Event 2, March 1998
- Political Returns: Irony in Politics and Theory from Plato to the Antinuclear Movement (Westview Press, 1990)
- Co-edited with D. W. Conway, The Politics of Irony: Essays in Self-Betrayal (St. Martin's/MacMillan, 1992)
- “Moral Perfectionism and Abortion Politics,” Polity, 33, 345-364, Spring 2001
- Awards and Honors
- Pomona College, Wig Distinguished Professorship Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1994 & 1999
- Liberty Foundation, Seminar Participant, 1999
- Pomona College, Graves Award in the Humanities, 1998
- Who's Who Among the Nation's Teachers, 1998
