Laurence Dickey
Professor Emeritus

eMail: lwdickey@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)263-2364
Office: 4123 Mosse Humanities

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF

Education: PhD: University of California - Berkeley; MA: University of California - Berkeley; BA: University of California - Berkeley

Bio Sketch:

My specializations are Intellectual and social, political theory (esp. Germany & Britain).

My Research and Teaching Interests include European intellectual, social, and political theory (esp. Germany & Britain). Current Research: The “Protestant Ethic” and the theories of “Civil Society.”

Selected Publications:

• Hegel: Religion, Economics, and the Politics of the Spirit, (Cambridge University Press, 1987; paperback ed., 1989)
  

Courses Taught:

Lecture Courses:

• History 208 - Foundations of Western Religious and Intellectual History
• History 512 - European Cultural History 1610-1815
• History 513 - European Cultural History 1815-1870
• History 514 - European Cultural History since 1870
• History 572 - Studies in European History

Undergraduate Seminars:

• History 200 - Historical Studies
• History 223 - Explorations in European History
• History 600 - Advanced Seminar in History - Topics: "History and the Crisis of Christianity in the 20th Century"; "Modern Critiques of Religion"; "The Historical Jesus"
• History 680/690 - Honors Thesis Coloquium

Graduate Courses:

• History 703 - History and Theory