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MARCH 7, 2001--Oberlin College alumnus Tracy B. Strong '63 will present the 2001 John D. Lewis Memorial Lectures at Oberlin College Monday, March 12 and Tuesday, March 13. Both lectures, in Room 106 of the College's King Building (on the corner of West College and North Professor streets), are free and open to the public.
Strong, a professor of political science at the University of California at San Diego, will first speak on Monday at 7:30 P.M. His lecture, "Nietzsche's Project of Cultural Revolution," will discuss what Nietzsche thinks it means to do philosophy and what the possibilities of philosophy might be in relation to politics. Tuesday's lecture, at 4:30 P.M., is titled "The Limits of Contract Theory." In it, Strong will draw upon Nietzsche, Rousseau, Stanley Cavell and others to offer a critique of political theories of the social contract and an assessment of what might follow in their wake.
A prolific author, Strong's writing focuses on political theory and philosophy, the philosophy of social science, politics and the arts, and modern social and political history. His books include Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration, Right in One's Soul: The Life of Anna Louise Strong, The Self and Political Order, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Politics of the Ordinary, and the forthcoming Ethical Pluralism.
Strong received his B.A. in Political Science from Oberlin College in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968. He has taught at Harvard University, Smith College, Yale University, the University of Pittsburgh, the Instituto Juan March in Madrid, and at Warwick University. In addition to his teaching appointments, Strong has acted as a defense policy seminar coordinator and instructor with Henry Kissinger at Harvard University, and served as acting dean of social sciences and associate chancellor for the University of California.
The John D. Lewis Memorial Lectureship Fund in political theory was established as a memorial to Professor John D. Lewis, primarily through the generosity of Mrs. Mary Jane Lewis. The purpose of the fund is to support annual visits by distinguished political theorists to Oberlin College.
John D. Lewis received his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1928, and earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He became a member of Oberlin College's Department of Government (later Politics) in 1935 and taught until his retirement in 1972. Tracy Strong was a student of Professor Lewis during his undergraduate studies at Oberlin College.
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