SCETL Visiting Scholar Series: 'The Socratic Search for Self-Knowledge' with Catherine Zuckert

Please join us for a visiting scholar "SCETL Talk" with Catherine Zuckert. Zuckert is an American political philosopher and Reeves Dreux professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. Zuckert’s book, "Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in Novel Form," won the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for the best book written in philosophy and religion by the American Association of Publishers in 1990. "Understanding the Political Spirit: From Socrates to Nietzsche," edited by Zuckert, received a Choice award as one of the best books published in political theory in 1989. Her book on "Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues" (University of Chicago Press, 2009) won the R.R. Hawkins award from the Association of American Publishers for the best scholarly book published that year. She co-authored "The Truth about Leo Strauss" (2006) and "Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy" (2014) with Michael P. Zuckert (both published by the University of Chicago Press), and edited "Political Philosophy in the 20th Century: Authors and Arguments" (Cambridge University Press, 2011) as well as "Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy" (University of Chicago Press, 2018). Her most recent monograph is "Machiavelli’s Politics" (University of Chicago Press, 2017).