{"id":8238,"date":"2024-09-11T09:53:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T07:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reverent-antonelli.23-88-7-78.plesk.page\/member\/prof-dr-james-sleeper\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:41:06","slug":"prof-dr-james-sleeper","status":"publish","type":"member","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/member\/prof-dr-james-sleeper\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dr. James Sleeper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Lecturer at Yale University<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Research project:<\/strong><br\/>&#8220;Civic-republican&#8221; leadership training in American colleges<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><br\/>The premises and protocols of citizen-leadership training in the United States have long been guided by a &#8220;civic-republican&#8221; model envisioned and elaborated by drafters of the American Constitution. Because their capitalist republic lacked mythical bonds of ethno-racial solidarity and sacred land, its survival depended on a critical mass of its citizens&#8217; upholding public virtues and beliefs which neither the liberal state nor capitalist markets alone nurture or defend-the liberal state because it cannot judge strongly among different ways of life, and markets because they reward self-interested consumers and investors rather than citizens who attain personal and public dignity by moderating self-interest to advance a common good. For these reasons, American republican understandings of selfhood and of citizen-leadership had to be nurtured all the more intensively in institutions such as residential undergraduate colleges in universities that stood somewhat apart from markets and the state.<br\/>The premises and practices of civic-republican collegiate education have never been pure or entirely successful, but they did nurture the American leadership that framed the post-World War II trans-Atlantic alliance, Cold War &#8220;containment&#8221; of Communism, and made possible the American Civil-Rights movement. The breakdown of that leadership and its ethos, and the search for alternative ways to nurture citizen-leadership in an increasingly global sphere, are the subjects of my research.   <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Events:<br\/><br\/><\/strong>June 5, 2014<br\/><em>Paper Presentation<\/em><strong><br\/><\/strong>&#8220;Should American Liberal-Arts Colleges Train Citizen-Leaders?&#8221;, Chairs: Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst, Prof. Dr. Klaus G\u00fcnther<strong><br\/><\/strong>Location: Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Bad Homburg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecturer at Yale University Research project:&#8220;Civic-republican&#8221; leadership training in American colleges Abstract:The premises and protocols of citizen-leadership training in the United States have long been guided by a &#8220;civic-republican&#8221; model [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1513,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"position":[213],"institute":[],"class_list":["post-8238","member","type-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","position-former-fellow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member\/8238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/member"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"institute","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institute?post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}