Lewis Hinchman

Professor of Political Science
274 Bertrand H. Snell Hall
E-mail: hinchman@clarkson.edu
Phone: 315-268-3985

Education
B.A., Princeton University
M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Courses Taught
  • American Politics
  • Politics in Cross-National Perspective
  • The American West
  • Political Theory

Scholarly Interests


    * Origins and meaning of environmental thought and the idea of nature preservation.
    * Rights of indigenous peoples and the legal/political theories that support-or challenge-those rights.
    * Continental political thinkers, notably G.W.F. Hegel and Hannah Arendt.

Publications
Books:             
Memory, Identity, Community: The Idea of Narrative in the Human Sciences, co-edited by Sandra K. Hinchman, State University of New York Press, 1997

Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, co edited by Sandra K. Hinchman,
State University of New York Press, 1994

Hegel's Critique of the Enlightenment, University of Florida Press, 1984
                 
Book Chapters:
AThe USA: Residual Welfare State and Libertarian Democracy,@ in Die Praxis der Sozialen Demokratie, edited by Thomas Meyer, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2006

AFreiheit und kulturelle Differenzen in den USA@ in  Freiheit und kulturelle Differenzen, edited by Thomas Meyer and Udo Vorholt, Projektverlag, Bochum/Freiburg 2006

ANachhaltigkeit und soziale Demokratie@ (ASustainability and Social Democracy@) and ASoziale Demokratie und kultureller Pluralismus@ (ASocial Democracy and Cultural Pluralism@), both in Die Theorie der Sozialen Demokratie,  (The Theory of Social Democracy,), Thomas Meyer, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2005

"Autonomy, Maturity and Individuality," in What is Enlightenment?  Eighteenth Century Answers and Twentieth Century Questions,
edited by James Schmidt, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1996

"Nature Preservation in the Global South:  A Survey and Assessment," co-authored by Sandra Hinchman, in Law, Values, and the Environment:  a Reader and Bibliography, edited by Robert N. Wells, Jr., Scarecrow Press, 1996

"Western Reservations and the Politics of Water," co authored by Sandra K. Hinchman, in Native American Resources and Renewal:  The Struggle for Self-Determination and Respect, edited by Robert N. Wells, Jr., Scarecrow Press, 1994

Book Collaborations/Translations:
The Theory of Social Democracy, Thomas Meyer with Lewis P. Hinchman, Polity Press, Cambridge, England, forthcoming summer 2007

Media Democracy: How the Media Colonize Politics, Thomas Meyer with Lewis P. Hinchman, Polity Press, Cambridge, England, 2002        

ALanguage in Exile@ by Imre Kertesz (2002 Nobel Prize Recipient in literature), Hannah Arendt Newsletter, April, 2001 (originally in German as Die Exilierte Sprache)

AReflections on Politics and Memory from the Perspective of Hannah Arendt=s Work,@ Hannah Arendt Newsletter, Spring, 2002 (originally in Spanish as Politica y Memoria: Reflexiones a partir de la obra de Hannah Arendt)

Refereed Articles: 
AWhat We Owe the Romantic,@ co-authored with Sandra K. Hinchman, forthcoming in Environmental Values, August, 2007

AScenic Byways: The Origins of Environmental Thought in the Renaissance,@ The International Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 2, issue 3, http://ijh.cgpublisher.com/product/pub26/prod.420, June, 2006

AIs Environmentalism a Humanism?,@ Environmental Values 13 (2004) 3-29, Winter, 2004

AShould Environmentalists Reject the Enlightenment?,@ co-authored by Sandra K. Hinchman, Review of Politics, Fall, 2001        

"Australia's Judicial Revolution and the Transformation of Liberalism," co-authored by Sandra K. Hinchman, in Polity, Fall, 1998

"Aldo Leopold's Hermeneutic of Nature," in Review of Politics, Spring 1995

"On Reconciling Happiness and Autonomy: An Interpretation of Hegel's Moral Philosophy," in The Owl of Minerva:  Journal of the Hegel Society of America, Fall 1991
       
"Existentialism Politicized: Hannah Arendt's Debt to Karl Jaspers," co authored by Sandra K. Hinchman, in The Review of Politics,
Summer 1991

"The Idea of Individuality: Origins, Meaning and Prospects," in Journal of Politics, Fall 1990  
         
"Virtue or Autonomy: Alasdair MacIntyre's Critique of Liberal Individualism,"
in Polity, Summer 1989

"'Deep Ecology' and the Revival of Natural Right," co authored by Sandra K. Hinchman, in Western Political Quarterly, Fall 1989
            
"In Heidegger's Shadow: Hannah Arendt's Phenomenological Humanism," co authored by Sandra K. Hinchman, in The Review of Politics, Spring 1984
                   
"Human Rights: A Hegelian Perspective," in Western Political Quarterly, Spring 1984  
            
"Hegel on Crime and Punishment," in The Review of Politics, Spring 1982

 Invited Articles:
“Wiederaufbau nach dem Hurrakan: den Krundkonsens Wiederherstellen” (Rebuilding after the Hurricane: Restoring Consensus in American Politics), in Frankurter Hefte/Neue Gesellschaft, February 1, 2008

AMorgenröte in Amerika@ (Dawn in America), in Frankfurter Hefte/ Neue Gesellschaft, April, 2007

AThen and Now: Hannah Arendt and the American Democratic Left,@ co-authored by Sandra K. Hinchman, in Jokyo (The Situation, a Japanese journal of law and politics), Spring 2000
        
AUmwelt und Politisches Handeln bei Hannah Arendt@ (AEnvironment and Political Action in Hannah Arendt@), Proceedings of the Bremen University Colloquium on Political Theory, Summer 2000

ADie Republik der Gruppenanerkennung: ein neues Regime  in den USA? (AThe Republic of Group Recognition, a New Regime in the USA?),@ in Kommune, February 2001                               

Reviews and Review Essays:
Of Robert Reich, Supercapitalism and Paul Krugman, Conscience of a Liberal, forthcoming in Frankfurter Hefte/ Neue Gesellschaft, Spring, 2008

Of Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, in Frankfurter Hefte/ Neue Gesellschaft, December, 2007         

Of William Ophuls, Requiem for Modern Politics: The Tragedy of the Enlightenment and the Challenge of the New Millenium, and Robert Zubrin with Richard Wagner, The Case for Mars: the Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, in Polity, Spring 1999
        
Of Bob Pepperman Taylor, Our Limits Transgressed:  Environmental Political Thought in America, review co-authored by Sandra Hinchman,
in Journal of Politics, 1993   

Of Domenico Losurdo, Hegel und das Deutsche Erbe, in International Studies in Philosophy, vol. 24, Spring 1992
        
Of Leah Bradshaw, Acting and Thinking: The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt, review co-authored by Sandra K. Hinchman,
in Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 22, Spring 1990    
 
Of Werner Marx, The Philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling, in The Review of Politics, vol. 48, Spring 1986

Non-academic Book:
Hiking Tropical Australia: Queensland and Northern New South Wales,
 
Grass Tree Press, 1999