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Sheldon S. Wolin (; August 4, 1922 – October 21, 2015)〔Hotchkiss, Michael (24 October 2015). ("Political theorist Sheldon Wolin dies at 93" ). Princeton University News Service〕 was an American political theorist and writer on contemporary politics. One of the most original and influential American political theorists of the past fifty years, Wolin became Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, where he taught from 1973 to 1987. During a teaching career which spanned over forty years Wolin also taught at University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Cruz, Oberlin College, Oxford University, Cornell University, and University of California, Los Angeles. 〔.〕 He was a great teacher of undergraduate and particularly graduate students, serving as a mentor to many students who themselves became prominent scholars and teachers of political theory, including Wendy Brown, J. Peter Euben, and Cornel West.〔Grimes, William (28 October 2015). "(Sheldon S. Wolin, Theorist Who Shifted Political Science Back to Politics, Dies at 93 )." ''New York Times''. Online version retrieved 29 October 2015; print version, under title "Sheldon S. Wolin, 93, a Political Theorist," appeared 29 October 2015.〕 ==Academic career== After graduating from Oberlin College, Wolin received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1950, for a dissertation entitled ''Conservatism and Constitutionalism: A Study in English Constitutional Ideas, 1760–1785''. After teaching briefly at Oberlin, Wolin taught political theory at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1954 to 1970, and built a political theory program by bringing Norman Jacobson, John H. Schaar, Hanna Fenichal Pitkin, and Michael Rogin into the department. One of Wolin's central concerns was how the history of political thought could contribute to understanding contemporary political dilemmas and predicaments. He played a significant role in the Free Speech Movement and with John Schaar interpreted that movement to the rest of the world. During the seventies and eighties he published frequently for ''The New York Review of Books''. He also wrote opinion pieces and reviews for The New York Times. In 1980, he was the founding editor of the short-lived but intellectually influential journal ''democracy'' (1980-83). At Princeton, Wolin led a successful faculty effort to pass a resolution urging university trustees to divest from endowment investment in firms that supported South African apartheid. Wolin left Berkeley in the fall of 1971 for the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught until 1972. From 1973 through 1987, he was a professor of politics at Princeton University. Wolin served on the editorial boards of many scholarly journals, including ''Political Theory'', the leading journal of the field in the Anglo-American world. He consulted for various scholarly presses, foundations and public entities, including Peace Corps, American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council. Wolin also served as president of the Society for Legal and Political Philosophy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sheldon Wolin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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