Stephen Holmes

Stephen Holmes, 2019

Stephen Holmes (born February 21, 1948 ) is an American political and legal scholar who teaches as a professor at the School of Law at New York University .

After successfully completing his bachelor's degree at Denison University , Holmes moved to Yale University in 1969 , where he passed his first master's degree in 1974 and the master's degree in philosophy in 1975 and his Ph.D. in 1976. received his doctorate . After teaching at Yale University and Wesleyan University , he became an assistant professor of political science at Harvard University in 1979 and, from 1984, an associate professor. As such, he taught at the University of Chicago from 1985 . In 1989 he also became a professor of law in Chicago. In 1997 he moved to Princeton University , where he again taught political science. Since 2000 he has been the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at New York University.

Holmes researches and publishes mainly on the following topics: the history of European liberalism, the decline in democratic developments in recent decades, the difficulty of fighting international terrorism within the framework of the rule of law .

In 2019, Holmes published the book The light that failed together with Ivan Krastev . A reckoning before (in German translation as Das Licht, das Erlosch . An accounting appeared). The attempt is made to describe the new world order that has been developing since 1989 with a new pair of opposites. Where capitalism and communism once stood opposite each other, there is now the contrast between liberals and disappointed imitators of liberalism.

Fonts (selection)

• With Ivan Krastev : The light that failed. A reckoning. Penguin Books, London 2019, ISBN 978-0-241-34570-2 .
  • German edition: The light that went out . A settlement. Translated from English by Karin Schuler. Ullstein, Berlin 2019, ISBN 3-550-05069-0 .
• The matador's cape. America's reckless response to terror . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (NY) 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-87516-5 .
• Passions and constraint. On the theory of liberal democracy . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1995, ISBN 0-226-34968-3 .
• The anatomy of antiliberalism . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1993, ISBN 0-674-03180-6 .
• Benjamin Constant and the making of modern liberalism . Yale University Press, New Haven 1984, ISBN 0-300-03083-5 .

Web links

• Stephen Holmes at New York University

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical information based on: New York University: Stephen Holmes, Curriculum Vitae .
2. ^ New York University: Stephen Holmes, Biography .
3. ↑ Adam Soboczynski : The revenge of the problem citizens Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes show why the Eastern Europeans see themselves as the conservative avant-garde who embodies the real Europe . In: Die Zeit , No. 47/2019, November 14, 2019.