Region American Name Mary Dietz | Role Author Era Contemporary philosophy | |
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Books Between the Human and the Divine: The Political Thought of Simone Weil Main interests Political philosophy, Feminist theory, History of philosophy | ||
Mary Golden Dietz (born c. 1950) is the John Evans Professor of Political Theory at Northwestern University. She holds a joint appointment in Northwestern's Department of Political Science and its Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. She is the author of many books and articles in feminist theory and the history of philosophy and edited the journal, Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy, from 2005-2012. Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern, she taught at the University of Minnesota.
Dietz graduated Magna Cum Laude from Mount Holyoke College in 1972 with a degree in political science. Dietz did her master's and doctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley. While there she developed an interest in the work of Hannah Arendt through graduate seminars with the political theorist Hanna Pitkin.
She is the author of Between the Human and the Divine: The Political Thought of Simone Weil (1988) and Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, Politics (2002). She is also the editor of Thomas Hobbes & Political Theory (1990). Dietz has also published over 25 articles, 15 book reviews, and 21 chapters during her career.