The Department of Political Science
Prof. Benedetto Fontana's research interests include ancient, medieval and modern political theory, as well as contemporary political and social theory. He is the author of Hegemony and Power: On the Relation Between Gramsci and Machiavelli (University of Minnesota Press, 1993), and the coeditor of Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy (Penn State University Press, 2004). He has published in various journals, such as boundary 2, History of Political Thought, Journal of Classical Sociology, Journal of the History of Ideas, and The Philosophical Forum. Currently he is working on Antonio Gramsci and his notions of politics and the state, on Machiavelli and his Romans, and on rhetoric and democracy.
Courses
Contemporary Political Ideologies (POL 3337)
Modern Political Theory (POL 3336)
Early Political Theory (POL 3335)
American Political Thought (POL 2332)
American Politics (POL 1101)
Selected Publication
Hegemony and Power: On the Relation Between Gramsci and Machiavelli, University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
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