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The John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy


Jim Miller 

Jim Miller is the director of liberal studies and professor of political science at the Graduate Faculty of the New School.  He is also the editor of Daedelus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Professor Miller has authored a variety of books on different topics including: Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977 (1999); The Passion of Michel Foucault (1993); "Democracy is in the Streets": From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago (1987); Rousseau: Dreamer of Democracy (1984); and History and Human Existence -- From Marx to Merleau-Ponty (1979). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and he was a National Book Critics Circle Finalist in 1994 for The Passion of Michel Foucault and in 1987 for Democracy Is in the Streets

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