Nicholas Smith | |
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Born | 1962 |
Education | University of Glasgow (PhD), University of York (MA), Newcastle University (BA) |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental |
Institutions | University of Connecticut, Macquarie University |
Thesis | Modernity, crisis and critique: an examination of rival philosophical conceptions in the work of Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor (1992) |
Doctoral advisor | C.F.J. Martin |
Main interests | hermeneutics and political philosophy |
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