Patrick J. Deneen

Patrick J. Deneen

Patrick J. Deneen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, and a member of the Ethika Politika editorial board.

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Articles

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Loss of Vocation and the Demise of the University

May 21, 2014

The separation of justice and work on today’s college campus underlies the pathologies of each: illiberal liberalism and cut-throat utility. They are not a contradiction, but the result of a pathological separation wrought of widespread religious disaffiliation.

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Contemplative Fatherhood

June 9, 2013

By demoting fatherhood’s centrality in our public philosophy, we demote in turn the deepest and most formative essence of fatherhood—one that personifies the capacity of humans to form deep and lasting bonds on the basis of human reflexivity, particularly embodied reason and faith.