Biography
Biography
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.”
Education
Ph.D., University of California – Berkeley
M.A., University of California – Berkeley
B.A., University of California – Berkeley
Books
Hegel: Religion, Economics, and the Politics of Spirit, 1770–1807
Laurence Dickey. Hegel: Religion, Economics, and the Politics of Spirit, 1770–1807. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
This major study of Hegel’s intellectual development up to the writing of The Phenomonology of Spirit argues that his work is best understood in the context of the liberalisation of German Protestantism in the eighteenth century.
History Courses Taught
- History 200 – Historical Studies
- History 208 – Foundations of Western Religious and Intellectual History
- History 223 – Explorations in European 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
- History 600 – History and the Crisis of Christianity in the 20th Century
- History 600 – Modern Critiques of Religion
- History 600 – The Historical Jesus
- History 680/690 – Honors Thesis Coloquium
- History 703 – History and Theory