Professore Ordinario in political and social theory, and political bioethics, informed by philosophy, political science and sociology, at the University of Texas at Austin. Visiting professorships in Germany (Frankfurt/O.), Japan (Tokyo Gaidai, Hokkaido), China (Beiwai), Austria (Linz, Innsbruck) and Brazil (Goiãnia). Studied with Michael Walzer in Princeton, Axel Honneth in Berlin, and Seyla Benhabib at Yale. Author of << Thick Moralities, Thin Politics [Duke Univ Press]>> (public policy suffers when politics are laden with moral doctrines, and should work not toward consensus but toward the more realistic goal of mutual accommodation); << C…

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