Dana Villa
Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Degrees
B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Research Profile
Dana Villa is Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Science. He is the author ofArendt and Heidegger: the Fate of the Political (Princeton, 1996), Politics,
Philosophy, Terror (Princeton, 1999), Socratic Citizenship (Princeton, 2001),
and the forthcoming Public Freedom (Princeton, 2008). He is also the editor
of The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt (Cambridge, 2000) and the
co-editor of Liberal Modernism and Democratic Individuality (Princeton,
1996). Widely known for his work on Arendt, Villa specializes in the history
of political thought and Continental philosophy, with a special emphasis on
thinkers in the German philosophical tradition (Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger and
the Frankfurt School). He is currently working on a study of Hegel and
Tocqueville.
Contact Information
217
O'Shaughnessy Hall
forthcoming
dvilla1@nd.edu
