Andrew Arato
| Andrew Arato | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Hungarian: Arató András August 22, 1944 Budapest, Hungary |
| Awards | Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Distinguished Fulbright Professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | The University of Chicago, Queen's College |
| Doctoral advisor | Leonard Krieger, William H. McNeill |
| Influences | Georg Lukács, Jürgen Habermas |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | History of political thought, civil society, political theory, legal and constitutional theory |
| Notable works | Civil Society and Political Theory |
Andrew Arato (Hungarian: Arató András [ˈɒrɒtoː ɒndraːʃ]; born 22 August 1944, Budapest) is Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory in the department of sociology at The New School, best known for his influential book Civil Society and Political Theory, coauthored with Jean L. Cohen. He is also known for his work on critical theory, constitutions, and has been from 1994 to 2014 co-editor of the journal Constellations.
Arato first attended Queen's College in New York City, completing his B.A. in history in 1966. Subsequently, Arato moved to The University of Chicago to complete his M.A. in 1968 and Ph.D. in 1975 with a dissertation entitled 'The Search for the Revolutionary Subject: The Philosophy and Social Theory of the Young Lukács 1910-1923' under the guidance of Leonard Krieger and William H. McNeill. In preparation for his dissertation, Arato conducted preliminary research at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in the spring of 1970 under the guidance of Budapest School scholars Agnes Heller, György Markus, and Mihaly Vajda.
A distinct chronology defines Arato’s intellectual biography, which often parallels and was inspired by the evolution in thinking of opposition intellectuals in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe and, most especially, in Hungary, the country of Arato’s birth. At the same time, much of his work was hammered out in conjunction with his longtime intellectual partner Jean L. Cohen and strongly influenced by the philosophical and sociological work of Jürgen Habermas.
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