Name Jedediah Purdy | Role Author | |
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Education Harvard College, Yale University, Harvard University, Yale Law School Books For Common Things, A tolerable anarchy, Being America, The Meaning of Property, Das Elend der Ironie | ||
A communion of subjects law environment and religion interview with jedediah purdy
Jedediah S. Purdy (born 1974 in Chloe, West Virginia) is a professor of law at Duke University and the author of two widely discussed books: For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today (1999) and Being America: Liberty, Commerce and Violence in an American World (2003). He is also the author of After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene (2015), The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community and the Legal Imagination (2010), and A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom (2009).
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- A communion of subjects law environment and religion interview with jedediah purdy
- Jedediah purdy after nature a politics for the anthropocene
- Biography
- References
Jedediah purdy after nature a politics for the anthropocene
Biography
He was homeschooled in West Virginia until high school and is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College (where he was a Truman Scholar and a member of the Class of 1997), and Yale Law School (Class of 2001). After law school, he clerked for Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York. He also serves on the editorial advisory board of the Ethics & International Affairs. He has been a fellow at the New America Foundation, a think tank that has been described as radical centrist in orientation.
He is the son of Wally and Deirdre Purdy.