Department of Philosophy: People: Core Faculty: Andrew Levine

Andrew Levine (Ph.D. Columbia) is a Research Professor, at the University of Maryland at College Park. His principal research interests are in political philosophy and the philosophy of the social sciences. He has written extensively on recent liberal theory and on historical figures including Marx, Rousseau, Hobbes, Locke and Mill. Before coming to College Park, he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington D.C.

E-mail: alevine@earthlink.net

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Representative Publications

The American Ideology (Oxford: Routledge, 2004).

A Future for Marxism?: Althusser, the Analytical Turn and the Revival of Socialist Theory (London: Pluto Press, 2003).

Engaging Political Philosophy: Hobbes to Rawls (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2001). Chinese translation (Wu-Nan Book Co.) forthcoming.

Rethinking Liberal Equality: From a 'Utopian' Point of View (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998).

The General Will: Rousseau, Marx, Communism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

Reconstructing Marxism: Essays on Explanation and the Theory of History, co-authored with Erik Olin Wright and Elliot R. Sober (London: Verso, 1992). Portugese translation: Reconstruindo o Marxismo (Sao Paulo: Voz, 1992).

The End of the State (London: Verso, 1987).

Arguing for Socialism: Theoretical Considerations (Boston and London: Routledge and Kegan, 1984). Second (paperback) edition, with a new Preface and Afterword (London: Verso, 1988).

Liberal Democracy: A Critique of Its Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981).

The Politics of Autonomy: A Kantian Reading of Rousseau's Social Contract (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976).