John Schaar
John H(omer) Schaar (July 7, 1928-December 26, 2011) was a scholar and political theorist. He was a Professor Emeritus at the [University of California, Santa Cruz]. Schaar was born in Montoursville, PA, USA and raised on a farm in a Lutheran family.
Schaar received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles. He taught political theory at the University of California, Berkeley, where his theory colleagues included Sheldon Wolin, Norman Jacobson, Michael Rogin, and Hanna Pitkin. In 1970 he moved to U.C., Santa Cruz. At Berkeley, he was a significant influence on the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. His closest students include the late Wilson Carey McWilliams, Jeff Lustig, Douglas Lummis, Marge Frantz, J. Peter Euben, Frank Bardacke, and Joshua Miller. He has also frequently taught at Deep Springs College. His central political values include community, democracy, and political participation. He has published articles on patriotism, equality, and authority. He advocates the decentralization of political and economic power.
He is married to political theorist Hanna Pitkin, and together they resided in the Santa Cruz mountains.
[edit] Publications
- Loyalty in America (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1957).
- Escape from Authority: The Perspectives of Erich Fromm (New York: Basic Books, 1961).
- The Berkeley Rebellion and Beyond: Essays on Politics & Education in the Technological Society, co-authored with Sheldon S. Wolin (New York: New York Review Book, 1970).
- Legitimacy in the Modern State (collected essays) (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Press, 1981). See especially the title essay and "The Case for Patriotism."
[edit] External links
- What is Patriotism? at The Nation[dead link]
- Links at The New York Review of Books
