Prof. Laurence D. Cooper

Prof. Laurence Cooper, Chair of the Political Science Department at Carleton College, writes to say:

If memory serves, Mortimer Adler DID receive his BA from Columbia, just a little late , in 1982.I was there, watching my brother graduate.Apparently it only took six decades or so to learn to swim. (It was swimming, not simply gym, that he hadn't passed.)

Laurence D. Cooper
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Laurence D. Cooper
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Laurence D. Cooper
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Laurence D. Cooper, a new contributor, is associate professor of political science at Carleton College and the author most recently of Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche: The Politics of Infinity (Penn State).

Laurence D. Cooper
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Laurence Cooper shows how, for Rousseau, conscience-understood as the "love of order"-functions as the agent whereby simple savage sentiment is sublimated into a more refined "civilized naturalness" to which all people can aspire.

Laurence D. Cooper is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carleton College.

Laurence Cooper, a professor at Carleton College, has written an essay called "Irving Kristol and the Reinvigoration of Bourgeois Republicanism" that elaborates on this theme, though it doesn't mention Nietzsche.It's available in this volume.

Four members of the Carleton faculty were awarded tenure status by the Board of Trustees this spring, including Alfred Montero, Debby Walser-Kuntz, Laura Chihara and Laurence Cooper.
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Cooper, assistant professor of political science, earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia in government, an M.A. in psychology from New York University, and then an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Duke University.He joined the faculty of Carleton's political science department in 1997.In addition to his sequence of political philosophy courses, Cooper offers both thematically organized courses and upper-level seminars normally mally devoted to a single thinker, and often a single book.
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Cooper, for example, is in the midst of preparing a book about the notions of desire and politics as treated by Plato, Rousseau and Nietzsche.He is also planning to design some new courses over the next few years, including one on Shakespeare and one on Genesis.
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Cooper expressed his desire to see increased efforts to recognize the importance of the humanities to a liberal arts education and to emphasize the centrality of certain works to the humanities."Students should have freedom to follow their own ways," he said.