Dr. Kyong-Min Son
Associate Professor
Political Theory
University of Delaware
457 Smith Hall
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-2355
Biography
Kyong-Min Son, PhD (Cornell University, 2012) joined the Department in 2012. He specializes in democratic theory and twentieth-century political thought. In his work, Kyong-Min examines how the idea and practice of democracy is historically shaped by surrounding political, socioeconomic, and technological conditions, and engages in contemporary debates in light of his findings. Kyong-Min takes an interdisciplinary approach and integrates social theory, political economy, and the philosophy and history of social science into his work. In his recent book, The Eclipse of the Demos: The Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy before Neoliberalism (University Press of Kansas, 2020), Kyong-Min traces the current crisis of democracy to a multifaceted transformation of democratic theory during the Cold War. He is currently writing a book on the rise of finance capital in the twentieth century and its implications for democratic citizenship.
Recent Publications
“The Making of the Neoliberal Subject,” Political Theory 47:2 (2019).
“What is Populism? And Who is the Populist? A State of the Field Review (2008-2018)” (co-authored with Jean-Paul Gagnon, Emily Beausoleil, Cleve Arguelles, Pierrick Chalaye, and Callum N. Johnston), Democratic Theory 5:2 (2018).
“Cybernetic Freedom: David Easton, Systems Thinking, and the Search for Dynamic Stability,” American Political Thought 7:4 (2018).
“The Cold War Origins of the ‘Crisis of Democracy,’” Democratic Theory 5:1 (2018).
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