Authors:

  • Danielle Allen

Excerpt

February 19, 2021, Video: "POSSIBLE WORLDS A lecture series presented by the UCLA Division of Humanities and the Berggruen Institute "What Kind of Revolution Was That? Polarization and the Path Forward After January 6" with Danielle Allen Harvard Classicist and Political Theorist Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, is a political theorist whose work focuses on democratic theory, political sociology and the history of political thought. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity from the Library of Congress and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. Her book "Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality" was awarded the Heartland Prize, the Zócalo Book Prize, and the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkman Prize."

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