Joshua Parens

Joshua Parens received his BA from St. John's College and his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. He is now Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts at the University of Dallas. Like all UD professors he teaches widely, but he especially enjoys studying political philosophy with graduate students. In addition to the philosophers he has already published most on so far, Plato, Aristotle, Alfarabi, Maimonides, Spinoza, and Strauss, he also has writing projects on Bacon, Descartes, Montesquieu, and Heidegger. As the son of a Shoah survivor, his lifelong interest has been in understanding spiritedness, love of one's own, or what late moderns call "rootedness," and its place in the economy of human life, which may be the first question of political philosophy.