How Fascism Works

Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he was Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Professor Stanley will speak to his latest book, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Penguin Random House, 2018). Professor Stanley has four previously published books, his first being Knowledge and Practical Interests published in 2005 by Oxford University Press and winner of the 2007 American Philosophical Association book prize. Professor Stanley’s second book, Language in Context, also OUP, was published in 2007. This is a collection of his papers in semantics published between 2000 and 2007 on the topic of linguistic communication and context. His third book, Know How, was published in 2011, also with OUP. Professor Stanley’s fourth book, How Propaganda Works, was published by Princeton University Press in May, 2015. It was the winner of the 2016 PROSE award for the subject area of philosophy.

This talk is sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa, the Philosophy Department, and the W.Ford Schumann ’50 Program in Democratic Studies. Book signing to follow.

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