Jedediah Purdy
Jedediah S. Purdy (born 1974 in Chloe, West Virginia) is a professor of law at Duke University and the author of two widely-discussed books: For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today (1999)[1] and Being America: Liberty, Commerce and Violence in an American World (2003). More recently the author of The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community and the Legal Imagination (2010) and A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom (2009).
He was home schooled in West Virginia until high school and is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College (where he was a Truman Scholar and a member of the Class of 1997), and Yale Law School (Class of 2001). After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York. He also serves on the editorial advisory board of the Ethics & International Affairs.
He is the son of Wally and Deirdre Purdy.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ "For Common Things" (Knopf), has become one of the season's meatier cultural chew toys. Kahn, Joseph P. (19 October 1999) "Shooting at the hip; With the assurance of youth, Jed Purdy challenges a culture of 'terminal irony' in an age of cool" The Boston Globe page D-1
- ^ http://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19990905mag-sincere-culture.html
[edit] External links
- New York Times Magazine profile, "Against Irony" by Marshall Sella, September 5, 1999.
- Liberal Empire: Assessing the Arguments by Jedediah Purdy
- Washington Post profile, "A Super-Scholar, All Grown Up and Still Theorizing", April 10, 2006.
- Famed McSweeney's parody, "Jedediah in Love", by Todd Pruzan, October 12, 1999.
