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Committee
on Social Thought
University of Chicago
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Chicago, IL 60637
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mlilla@uchicago.edu
Education
Harvard
University, Ph.D., Department of Government, 1990.
Doctoral thesis: "A Preface to Vico: Skepticism, Politics,
Theodicy."
Harvard
University, M.P.P., Kennedy School of Government, 1980.
University
of Michigan, A.B. summa
cum laude, Political Science and Economics, 1978.
Academic
appointments
1999-
Professor of Social Thought, University of Chicago
1996-99
Associate Professor, Department of Politics, New York University.
1994-96
Associate Director, Institute for Advanced European Studies, New York
University
1990-96 Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, New York University.
Other
professional experience and memberships
2002-
Member, Advisory Board, Journal of
Israeli History
2001-
Member, Editorial Board, European
Journal of Political Theory
2000-
Member, Board of University Publications, University of Chicago
1996-
Editor and Associate, Correspondence
1994-95
Program Director, New York Institute for the Humanities
1992-99
Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities
1992-
Member, Honorary Committee, Center for Political Thought, Jagiellonian
University, Kraków, Poland
1991-99
General Editor, "New French Thought" series, Princeton
University Press.
1990-96
Contributing Editor, Partisan
Review.
1980-87
Editor, The
Public Interest.
1995
Knight of the Order of Academic Palms, French Ministry of Education.
1991
Leo Strauss Award, American Political Science Association.
Awarded annually for the best dissertation in political philosophy in
the United States.
Fellowships
and grants
1998
Earhart Foundation. Research
Fellowship.
1997-98
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
1997
New York University. Research
Challenge Grant.
1996-97
Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (postponed).
1996
Earhart Foundation. Research
Fellowship.
1995-96
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow, Freie Universität, Berlin.
Research Associate, Einstein Forum, Potsdam.
1994
Earhart Foundation. Research
Fellowship.
New York University. Presidential
Fellowship.
1993-94
New York University. Research
Challenge Grant.
1992-1993
National Endowment for the Humanities.
Grant for "New French Thought" series, Princeton University
Press.
1992-1993
French Ministry of Culture, Centre National du Livre.
Grant for "New French Thought" series, Princeton University
Press.
1992
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD).
Summer grant for language training.
1989-1990
Newcombe Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation
Krupp Fellow, Harvard Center for European Studies
1988-1989
Social Science Dissertation Fellowship, Harvard University
1986-1987
Prix de Rome, American Academy in Rome
Fulbright Fellow, Italy
1978-1980
HEW Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Publications
Books
The
Reckless Mind. Intellectuals in Politics (New York Review
Books, 2001).
The
Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (New York Review Books, 2001).
Edited with Ronald Dworkin and Robert Silvers.
New
French Thought: Political Philosophy (Princeton University
Press, 1994). Editor.
G.B.
Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (Harvard University Press, 1993;
paperback, 1994)
The
Public Face of Architecture: Civic Culture and Public Spaces
(Free Press, 1987). Edited with
Nathan Glazer.
Selected
articles
“Zionism
and the Counter-Intellectuals.” Journal
of Israeli History, forthcoming.
“New
Liberal Thought." Article in
Columbia History of Twentieth Century French Thought, edited by
Lawrence Kritzman (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming).
“Deux
conceptions de liberté dans l’Amerique d’après 1968.”
Chapter in Philippe Raynaud and Elisabeth Zoller, eds., Le
droit dans la culture américaine (Paris: Editions Paris-Assas,
2001).
“Multiculturalismo
e ‘political correctness’.” Problemi
dell’informazione, June-September 2001.
“Hegel and the Political Theology of Reconciliation.”
Review of Metaphysics
(June 2001).
“Ignorance and Bliss.” Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2001.
“1989:
The Lost Generation.” In Joseph
Mali, ed., Wars, Revolutions and
Generational Identity (Tel Aviv: Am Ovid, 2001).
In Hebrew.
“Wolves
and Lambs,” in Mark Lilla, et al., eds, The
Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (New York Review Books, 2001).
“Night
Thoughts.” New York Review of Books,
30 November 2000. On
Michel Houellebecq.
“Philosophy
for a Messy World.” New
York Review of Books, 11 May 2000.
On Stuart Hampshire.
“Vico
Against the Skeptics.” In Giambattista
Vico nel suo tempo e nel nostro, edited by Mario Agrimi (Naples:
Cuen, 1999), pp. 83-108.
“L’humanisme
en questions.” Introduction to Histoire de la philosophie politique,
vol. 5, edited by Alain Renaut (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1999).
“Kant’s Theological-Political Revolution.”
Review
of Metaphysics, December 1998.
“A
Tale of Two Reactions.” New
York Review of Books, 14 May 1998.
"Anti-Lumières."
Article in the Dictionnaire
de philosophie politique, edited by P. Raynaud and S. Rials
(Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997).
"Was
ist Gegenaufklärung?," Merkur.
May 1996
"Ni
Socrates, ni Jésus," Interpretation,,Winter
1996.
"The
Strange Birth of Liberal France," Wilson Quarterly, Fall 1994.
"Déviances
en démocratie," Le Débat, September-October
1994.
"The Other Velvet Revolution: Continental Liberalism and its Discontents," Daedalus, Spring 1994.
"The
Trouble with Enlightenment," London
Review of Books, 6 January 1994.
On Isaiah Berlin.
"Vico:
The Anti-Modernist," The
Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1993.
1999
Weizmann Memorial Lecture, Rehovot, Israel.
1998 John U. Nef Memorial Lecture, University of Chicago.
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