JAN-WERNER MÜLLER

Jan-Werner Müller studied at the Free University, Berlin, University College, London, St.
Antony’s College, Oxford, and Princeton University. From 1996 until 2003 he was a
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; from 2003 until 2005 he was a Fellow at the
European Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College. Since 2005 he has been teaching in the Politics Department, Princeton University.

He has been a visiting fellow at the Collegium Budapest Institute of Advanced Study, the
Remarque Institute, NYU, the Center for European Studies, Harvard, as well as the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence. He has also taught as a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris.

Professor Müller is a co-founder of the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA), Berlin,
Germany’s first private, English-speaking liberal arts college, for which he served as
founding research director. He maintains a strong interest in international teaching and research initiatives centered on the liberal arts.

He is the author of Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National
Identity (Yale UP, 2000;Chinese translation), A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought (Yale UP, 2003;German, French, Japanese, and Chinese translations); he is also the editor of Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past,(Cambridge UP 2002) and German Ideologies since 1945: Studies in the Political Thought and Culture of the Bonn Republic (Palgrave 2003). His book Constitutional Patriotism was published by Princeton University Press in 2007.

Professor Müller’s public affairs commentary has appeared in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung,
the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches
Denken; he has also contributed to Project Syndicate, Dissent, the Boston Review, and Prospect (London), as well as Esprit and Commentaire (Paris). He serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal of Political Theory, the Journal of Contemporary History, and Raison Publique: Revue International de Philosophie Pratique et Appliquée.

He is currently writing a new history of political thought in twentieth-century Europe.

Monographs:
-Constitutional Patriotism (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007; German version in preparation)

-A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003)
(Reviews in Times Literary Supplement, Political Theory, Political Studies Review, European Journal of Political Theory, The American Historical Review, Central European History, Choice, German Politics and Society, German Studies Review, German History, H-Net Reviews, Commentaire [France], Critique [France], Sociétal [France], Mouvements [France], Revista de Libros [Spain], R&R: Nederlands tijdschrift voor Rechtsfilosofie en Rechtstheorie [Netherlands] Het Financieele Dagblad [Netherlands], De Groene Amsterdammer [Netherlands])
Chosen as a ‘legal studies book of the year’ by Neue Juristische Wochenschrift [Germany]
German edition: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, with a preface by Michael Stolleis
French edition: Armand Colin
Chinese edition: Shan Hui Culture Enterprise
Japanese edition: Minerva Shobo

-Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000)
(Reviews in Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Review of Books, Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington Times, Choice, The American Historical Review, Political Studies, German Studies Review, German Politics and Society, German History, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London, Nations and Nationalism, Modern Language Notes, Neue Zürcher Zeitung [Switzerland])
Chinese edition: Shan Hui Culture Enterprise

Guest-edited Journals:

-(ed. with Kim Lane Scheppele), Special Issue on Constitutional Patriotism, I-CON: International Journal of Constitutional Law (OUP, forthcoming)
-(ed. with Andreas Kalyvas), Special Issue on Carl Schmitt, Cardozo Law Review, vol. 21 (2000)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
-‘Our Philadelphia? Understanding the (Apparent) Failure of the European Constitution’, in: Journal of Modern European History, Special Issue on ‘European Constitutions, Civility, and Violence (18th century to the present)’, eds. José Harris and Robert Gerwarth (forthcoming)

-‘A European Constitutional Patriotism? The Case Restated’, in: European Law Journal (forthcoming)

- ‘A General Theory of Constitutional Patriotism’, in: I-CON: International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming)

-‘Re-Imagining Leviathan: Schmitt and Oakeshott on Hobbes and Political Order’, in: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, special issue on Hobbes and Schmitt, ed. Johan Tralau (forthcoming)

-‘Fear and Freedom: On “Cold War Liberalism”’, in: European Journal of Political Theory, Special Issue on ‘Twentieth-Century European Liberalism’, ed. Michael Freeden (forthcoming)

-‘Guerillas, Partisans and the Political: Carl Schmitt and the War on Terror’, in: Scott Horton (ed.), Jurisprudence and the War on Terror (New York: New Press, forthcoming); a longer version appeared in Notizie di Politeia: Rivista di Etica e Scelte Pubbliche (Italy), vol. 22 (2006)

-‘A European Public Memory? Some normative and conceptual doubts’, in: Gosia Pakier and Bo Stråth (eds.) The Politics of Commemoration: The Search for the Past and the Shaping of a European Culture (Berghahn, forthcoming)

-‘The Cold War and the Intellectual History of the Late Twentieth Century’, in: The Cambridge History of the Cold War, Vol. 3: Endings 1975-1991 (Cambridge UP, forthcoming)

-‘On Europe’, in: Peter Hayes and John Roth (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (Oxford UP, forthcoming)

-‘Thomas Manns Albtraum? Potential und Paradoxe europäischer Erinnerungspolitik’, in: Christian Joerges, Matthias Mahlmann and Ulrich K. Preuß (eds.), ‘Schmerzliche Erfahrungen’ der Vergangenheit und der Prozess der Konstitutionalisierung Europas (Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, forthcoming)

-‘Nation, Verfassungspatriotismus, Leitkultur: Integrationsversuche vor und nach 1989’, in: Jens Hacke (ed.), Wege in die Bundesrepublik (Campus, forthcoming)

-‘A “Thick” Constitutional Patriotism for Europe? On Morality, Memory and Militancy’, in: Erik O. Eriksen, Christian Joerges and Florian Rödl (eds.), Law, Democracy, and Solidarity in a Post-national Union: The Unsettled Political Order of Europe (forthcoming)

-‘Is Europe Converging on Constitutional Patriotism? (And if so: Is it Justified?)’, in: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, vol. 10 (2007)

-‘Retour sur la question du patriotisme constitutionnel européen’ in Raison Publique, no. 7 (2007)

-‘Three Objections to Constitutional Patriotism’, in: Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, Vol. 14 (2007)

-‘Europäische Erinnerungspolitik Revisited’, in: Transit: Europäische Revue, no. 33 (2007); also in: Lettre Internationale (Romania, forthcoming)

-‘Mit Schmitt gegen Schmitt, und gegen die liberale Weltordnung: Zur transatlantischen Debatte um Globalisierung, Empire und Pax Americana’, in: Rüdiger Voigt (ed.), Der Staat des Dezisionismus (Nomos, 2007)

-‘Verfassungspatriotismus: Ein deutscher Mythos?’, in: Vorgänge: Zeitschrift für Bürgerrechte und Gesellschaftspolitik, no. 1 (2007)

-‘Comprehending Conservatism: A New Framework for Analysis’, in: Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 11 (2006)

-‘Rawls, Historian: Remarks on Political Liberalism’s “Historicism”’, in: Revue Internationale de Philosophie, vol. 60 (2006)

-‘Die Dauerkrise des amerikanischen Konservatismus’, in: Walter Reese-Schäfer and Harald Bluhm (eds.), Die Intellektuellen und der Weltlauf: Schöpfer und Missionare politischer Ideen in den USA, Asien und Europa nach 1945 (Nomos, 2006); a shorter version forthcoming in Ricerche di Storia Politica

-‘On the Origins of Constitutional Patriotism’, in: Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 5, no. 3 (2006)

-to be reprinted in: Klaus Günther, Christian Joerges and Camil Ungureanu (eds.), Jürgen Habermas’ Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy: From the Nation-State to Europe and the Postnational Constellation (Ashgate, forthcoming)

-to be reprinted in: Alexander Pavkovic and Igor Primoratz (eds.), Patriotism: Philosophical and Political Perspectives (Ashgate, forthcoming)

-‘Theorie und Temperament: Was bleibt vom politischen Denken Isaiah Berlins?’, in: Jahrbuch Politisches Denken 2005 (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2006)

-Entries on ‘Carl Schmitt’ and ‘Histoire, mémoire et politique’, in: Sylvie Mesure and Patrick Savidan (eds.), Dictionnaire critique des sciences humaines (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2006)

-‘Julien Benda’s antipassionate Europe’, in: European Journal of Political Theory, no. 2, vol. 5 (2006); also as ‘L’Europe dépassionnée de Julien Benda’ in: Commentaire (forthcoming)

-‘Die Offene Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde neu gelesen: Karl Poppers Liberalismus der Furcht und die totalitäre Herausforderung’, in: Transit: Europäische Revue, no. 30 (Winter 2005/2006)

-‘Visioner om global orden: Schmitt, Aron og verdensåndens embedsmand’, in: Slagmark, no. 43, 2005 [Denmark; translation of chapter ‘Visions of Global Order’ in A Dangerous Mind]

-‘Verfassungspatriotismus revisited’, in: Daniel Morat and Undine Ruge (eds.), Deutschland denken: Beiträge für die reflektierte Republik (Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2005)

-‘Verfassungspatriotismus: Eine europäische Verbindlichkeit?’, in: Transit: Europäische Revue, no. 28 (Winter 2004/2005)

-‘Visioni di un ordine globale nell’”età post-europea”: Carl Schmitt, Raymond Aron e il funzionario dello Spirito del mondo’, in: Ricerche di Storia Politica, no. 2 (August 2004) [a significantly expanded version of the chapter ‘Visions of Global Order’ in A Dangerous Mind]

-‘Myth, Law and Order: Schmitt and Benjamin read “Reflections on Violence”’, in: History of European Ideas, vol. 29 (2003)

-‘Rawls and German Political Thought’, in: European Journal of Political Theory, vol. 1, no. 2 (2002)

-‘1968 as Event, Milieu and Ideology’, in: Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 7, no. 1 (2002), also in: German Ideologies since 1945 (Palgrave, 2003)

-‘Introduction: The Power of Memory, the Memory of Power and the Power over Memory’, in: Memory and Power in Post-War Europe (Cambridge UP, 2002)

-‘The Soul in the Age of Society and Technology: Helmuth Plessner’s Defensive Liberalism’, in: John P. McCormick (ed.), Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas (Duke UP, 2002)

-‘Compromised Republicans: The Fate of the Vernunftrepublikaner and the Transformation of Liberal Thought from Weimar to the Federal Republic’, in: Jonathan Wright and Henning Tewes (eds.), Antisemitism, Liberalism and Democracy: Essays in Honour of Peter Pulzer (Oxford UP, 2001)

-‘The Transition in East Germany: Incorporation, Tainted Truth and the Double Division’, in: Paloma Aguilar, Alexandra Barahona de Brito and Carmen Gonzalez (eds.), The Politics of Memory: Three Decades of Truth and Justice in Transition (Oxford UP, 2001) [editions in Spanish and Portuguese]

-‘Carl Schmitt and the Constitution of Europe’, in: Cardozo Law Review, vol. 21, no. 6 (2000)

-‘Karl Heinz Bohrer on German National Identity: Recovering Romanticism and Aestheticizing the State’, in: German Studies Review, vol. 23 (May 2000)

-‘From National Identity to National Interest: The Rise (and Fall) of Germany’s New Right’, in: German Politics, vol. 8, no. 3 (1999), also in: German Ideologies since 1945.

-‘Carl Schmitt’s Method: Between Ideology, Demonology and Myth’, in: Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 4, no. 1 (1999)

-‘Liberale Neutralität: Pluralismus, Perfektionismus oder Heuchelei?’, in: Birgit Schwelling and
Peter Krause (eds.), Gleichgültigkeit und Gesellschaft , with a preface by Gesine Schwan (Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz, 1998)

-(with Michael W. Doyle) ‘Anatomie eines Erfolgs: Die UN-Mission in Ostslawonien’, in: Internationale Politik, vol. 53, no. 6 (1998)

-‘Preparing for the Political: German Intellectuals confront the “Berlin Republic”’, in: New German Critique (Fall 1997), also in: Howard Williams, Colin Wight and Norbert Kapferer (eds.), Political Thought and German Reunification: The New German Ideology? (Macmillan, 2000)

-‘Carl Schmitt – an Occasional Nationalist?’, in: History of European Ideas, vol. 23, no. 1 (1997)