Assistant Professor of Political Science, Matthew Weidenfeld, has received the journal of Contemporary Political Theory’s award for outstanding scholarship.
His article, “Comportment, not cognition: Contributions to a phenomenology of judgment” appears in the May 2011 issue of the publication.
The judges’ citation for the award was as follows:
“This article offers an original and persuasive phenomenological perspective from which to understand the politics of judgment, partly displacing, but also complementing, more traditional conceptions of what we do when we exercise (political) judgement. Weidenfeld’s argument undermines over-intellectualist approaches to political science, and points to new areas of study of political experience and the way in which we arrive at good (political) judgement.”
Dr. Weidenfeld joined Elon University’s faculty Fall 2012 and teaches courses in political theory.