Bryan Garsten

Bryan Garsten is Professor of Political Science and Humanities, and Chair of the Humanities Program

He writes about a range of topics in the history of political thought, including the role of persuasion in politics, the idea of political representation, and the relation between religion and liberalism. He is the author of Saving Persuasion and the editor of Rousseau, the Enlightenment, and Their Legacies, a collection of essays by Robert Wokler. He has also written numerous articles on figures such as Aristotle, Hobbes, Tocqueville, and Benjamin Constant.

At the moment he is finishing a book about early nineteenth-century liberalism called “The Heart of a Heartless World.”