Danielle S. Allen

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Danielle S. Allen


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Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, and Director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, is a political theorist who has published broadly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the history of political thought. Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in both ancient Athens and modern America, Allen is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. the Board of Education (2004), Why Plato Wrote (2010), Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (2014), Education and Equality (2016), and Cuz: The Life and Times of Michae
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Our Declaration: A Reading ...

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Cuz: An American Tragedy

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Talking to Strangers: Anxie...

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Justice by Means of Democracy

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Education and Equality

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Why Plato Wrote

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The World of Prometheus: Th...

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“Because of their impact on our memories, writers rule. They wield the instrument by which our world is organized.”
Danielle S. Allen, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

“The text has in it the wizardry of politics—the fact that it is possible for a multitudinous heap of people to build a shared life by doing things with words.”
Danielle S. Allen, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

“Because we have accepted the view that there is a trade-off between equality and liberty, we think we have to choose. Lately, we have come, as a people, to choose liberty.”
Danielle S. Allen, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

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