Perry Zurn Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy Department of Philosophy & Religion
- Additional Positions at AU
- Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy
- Affiliate Faculty, Honors Program
- Faculty Fellow, Complex Problems
- Degrees
- PhD, Philosophy, DePaul University
MA, Philosophy, Miami University - Languages Spoken
- English, French, Latin
- Bio
- Perry Zurn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American University. A political philosopher, Zurn studies forces and histories of change, focusing on the power of curiosity, political resistance, and transgender life. He is the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (2021) and the co-author of Curious Minds (MIT Press, forthcoming 2022). He is also the co-editor of Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (2016), Carceral Notebooks 12 (2017), Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge (2020), and Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, 1970-1980 (2021). He is currently at work on two new monographs: one on the poetics of transgender activism and another on the philosophy of movement.
- See Also
- Dr. Zurn's website
- Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry, paperback
- Curiosity Studies, open access
- "Curiosity is Political," podcast episode
- Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, paperback
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Teaching
Fall 2022
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PHIL-236 Ecological Justice