Department of Political Science

Melissa A. Orlie

Ph.D. 1991 Princeton University, Department of Politics.

research interests:

Political theory.

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

• Living Ethically, Acting Politically. Contestations Series (Cornell University Press, 1997).

  
  

Chapters in Books

• "Forgiving Trespasses, Promising Futures" Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt, edited by Bonnie Honig (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995): 337-356.
• "Political Capitalism and the Consumption of Democracy" Democracy and Vision: Sheldon Wolinand the Vicissitudes of the Political. Edited by Aryeh Botwinick and William E. Connolly, (Princeton University Press, 2001): 138-60.
• "The Value of Politics," Citizens and Politics: A Political Psychology of Perspective, edited by James Kuklinski, (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
• "Charles Taylor and Feminism: From recognition of identity to a politics of the good," Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Charles Taylor. Edited by Ruth Abbey, (Cambridge University Press, 2004): 104-165.v
• “Economic Globalization and Democracy” in International Perspectives on Democracy edited by Pete Nardulli (University of Illinois Press, 2008).

Journal Articles

• "Thoughtless Assertion and Political Deliberation" American Political Science Review 88(3) (September 1994): 684-695.
• "The art of despising oneself: The slavish roots of Nietzche's ascenticism" International Studies in Philosophy XXXII/3 2000: 71-82.
• "The desire for freedom and the consumption of politics" Philosophy & Social Criticism, 28(4) (2002): 395-417.
• "Mass Support for Power Politics" South Atlantic Quarterly 105:1 (Winter 2006): 217-240.