Prof George Crowder

Position/s:Department of Politics and Public Policy
School of Social and Policy Studies
Phone: +61 8 82012478
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Location: Social Sciences South (390)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

George Crowder has taught political theory in Britain, the United States and Lithuania as well as Australia.  His books include Classical Anarchism (1991), Liberalism and Value Pluralism (2002), Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism (2004), and he is the co-editor (with Henry Hardy) of The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin (2007).  His new book, Theories of Multiculturalism: An Introduction, is forthcoming from Polity Press in November 2013.

Qualifications

  • LL.B. (Hons) Law, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ (1977)
  • NZ Law Professionals (1978)
  • B.A. (Hons) Politics, VUW (1981)
  • D. Phil., Politics, University College, Oxford (1988)

Teaching

Topic Coordinator:

  • POLI 1010 Introduction to Modern Political Thought
  • POLI 2010 Basic Issues in Contemporary Political Theory
  • POLI 3002 Classics of Political Thought A: Socrates to Machiavelli
  • POLI 3003 Classics of Political Thought B: Hobbes to Berlin
  • POLI 3005 Continental Political Thought
  • POLI 7007 Honours Political Philosophy

Research and supervision

Research interests

Prof. Crowder is an internationally recognised authority on the work of the leading political philosopher Isaiah Berlin and on the concept of value pluralism and its political implications.  He has related interests in the history of political thought and in contemporary political theory, in particular liberalism and its critics and theories of multiculturalism and of distributive justice.

Publications

Books
Crowder, G.E. (2004). Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism. CAMBRIDGE, UK: Polity.
Crowder, G.E. (2002). Liberalism and Value Pluralism. London: Continuum.
Book chapters
Crowder, G.E. (2008). Multiculturalism: a value-pluralist view. In Geoffrey Brahm Levey, ed. Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalism. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 44-62.
Crowder, G.E. (2007). Value Pluralism and Liberalism: Berlin and Beyond. In George Crowder and Henry Hardy, ed. The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, pp. 207-230.
Crowder, G.E. (2002). From value pluralism to liberalism. In Liberalism: Critical Concepts in Political Theory, Vol IV. London: Routledge, pp. 40-53.
Refereed journal articles
Crowder, G.E. (2009). Thunder versus enlightenment: A response to Thunder. Political Theory, 37(1), pp.161-166. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591708326657.
Crowder, G.E. (2009). Pluralism, liberalism, and distributive justice. San Diego Law Review, 46(4), pp.773-802. [online]. Available from: http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/sanlr46&id=1&size=2&collection=journals&index=journals/sanlr#781.
Crowder, G.E. (2007). Two Concepts of Liberal Pluralism. Political Theory, 35(2), pp.121-146. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591706297642.
Crowder, G.E. (2006). Gray and the politics of pluralism. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 9(2), pp.171-188. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230600655008.
Crowder, G.E. (2006). Value pluralism and communitarianism. Contemporary Political Theory, 5(4), pp.405-427. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300249.

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Books
Crowder, G.E. (2004). Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism. CAMBRIDGE, UK: Polity.
Crowder, G.E. (2002). Liberalism and Value Pluralism. London: Continuum.
Book chapters
Crowder, G. (2013). Pluralism. In Gerald Gaus and Fred D'Agostino, ed. The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 353-363.
Crowder, G.E. (2010). Berlin, Isaiah (1909-1997). In Mark Bevir, ed. Encyclopedia of Political Theory. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, pp. 121-123.
Crowder, G.E. (2010). Isaiah Berlin, pluralismo y liberalismo. In Jorge Giraldo Ramirez, ed. Isaiah Berlin: utopia, tragedia y pluralismo. Universidad Eafit, Medellin, Colombia: Letra X Letra.
Crowder, G.E. (2010). Pluralism. In Mark Bevir, ed. Encyclopedia of Political Theory. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, pp. 1065-1068.
Crowder, G.E. (2008). Pluralism and Universalism. In Azyumardi Azra and Wayne Hudson, ed. Islam Beyond Conflict: Indonesian Islam and Western Political Theory. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, pp. 139-156.
Crowder, G.E. (2008). Multiculturalism: a value-pluralist view. In Geoffrey Brahm Levey, ed. Political Theory and Australian Multiculturalism. New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 44-62.
Crowder, G.E. (2007). Value Pluralism and Liberalism: Berlin and Beyond. In George Crowder and Henry Hardy, ed. The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, pp. 207-230.
Crowder, G.E. and Hardy, H. (2007). Introduction: The One and the Many. In George Crowder and Henry Hardy, ed. The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, pp. 17-30.
Crowder, G.E. and Hardy, H. (2007). Berlin's Universal Values - Core or Horizon? In George Crowder and Henry Hardy, ed. The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, pp. 293-297.
Crowder, G.E. (2005). Multiculturalism. In Martin Griffiths, ed. Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 546-548.
Crowder, G.E. (2005). Law of Peoples. In Martin Griffiths, ed. Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 487-496.
Crowder, G.E. (2003). Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1842-1921). In Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, ed. Russian Literature in the Age of Realism. Detroit, USA: Gale, pp. 191-198.
Crowder, G.E. (2002). From value pluralism to liberalism. In Liberalism: Critical Concepts in Political Theory, Vol IV. London: Routledge, pp. 40-53.
Crowder, G.E. and Griffiths, M. (2002). Postmodernism, Value Pluralism and International Relations. In International Relations and the Third Debate: Postmodernism and its Critics. Westport, CT, USA: Praeger, pp. 127-146.
Refereed journal articles
Crowder, G.E. (2009). Pluralism, liberalism, and distributive justice. San Diego Law Review, 46(4), pp.773-802. [online]. Available from: http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/sanlr46&id=1&size=2&collection=journals&index=journals/sanlr#781.
Crowder, G.E. (2009). Thunder versus enlightenment: A response to Thunder. Political Theory, 37(1), pp.161-166. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591708326657.
Crowder, G.E. (2008). Berlin, value pluralism and the common good: a reply to Brian Trainor. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 34(8), pp.909-923. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0191453708094730.
Crowder, G.E. (2008). Pluralism and Multiculturalism. Society, 45(3), pp.247-252. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-008-9089-1.
Crowder, G.E. (2007). Two Concepts of Liberal Pluralism. Political Theory, 35(2), pp.121-146. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591706297642.
Crowder, G.E. (2006). Gray and the politics of pluralism. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 9(2), pp.171-188. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230600655008.
Crowder, G.E. (2006). Value pluralism and communitarianism. Contemporary Political Theory, 5(4), pp.405-427. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.cpt.9300249.
Crowder, G.E. (2002). Two value-pluralist arguments for liberalism. Australian Journal of Political Science, 37(3), pp.457-473. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1036114021000026355.
Refereed conference papers
Crowder, G.E. (2011). Berlin and Rawls. In Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2011 Refereed full papers. Australasian Political Stduies Association Annual Conference 2011. [online]. Available from: http://law.anu.edu.au/coast/events/apsa/papers.htm.
Crowder, G.E. (2010). Chandran Kukathas's Liberal Archipelago. In Adrian Little, ed. Australiasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference Full Papers. APSA Conference 2010. [online]. Available from: http://apsa2010.com.au/full-papers.php.
Crowder, G.E. (2009). Bhikhu Parekh's multiculturalist critique of liberalism. In Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference Refereed Papers. Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference. pp. 1-16. [online]. Available from: http://www.pol.mq.edu.au/apsa/papers/Refereed%20papers/Crowder%20BHIKHU%20PAREKH%92S%20MULTICULTURALIST%20CRITIQUE.pdf.
Crowder, G.E. (2008). Iris Young and the Politics of Difference. In Shannon Brincat, Lesley Pruitt and Erin O'Connor, ed. Refereed Papers APSA 2008. Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference. pp. 1-16. [online]. Available from: http://www.polsis.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=51071.
Crowder, G.E. (2006). Chantal Mouffe's agonistic democracy. In Co-Convenors: Dr Jim Jose, Dr John Tate, Dr Benjamin Goldsmith, ed. APSA 2006 Conference Proceedings. Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conference. pp. 1-29.
Crowder, G.E. (2005). Value-Pluralist Multiculturalism: Between Economic Rationalism and Cultural Relativism. In Michael Murphy, ed. Proceedings of the APSA 2005 Conference. APSA Conference 2005. [online]. Available from: http://auspa.anu.edu.au/proceedings/publications/Crowderpaper.pdf.
Crowder, G.E. (2004). Galston's Liberal Pluralism. In APSA 2004 CONFERENCE PAPERS. Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2004.
Crowder, G.E. (2003). Pluralism, Relativism and Liberalism in Isaiah Berlin. In Australasian Political Studies Association Conference 2003 Refereed Papers. APSA Conference. [online]. Available from: http://www.utas.edu.au/government/APSA/GCrowder.doc.pdf.
Journal articles
Crowder, G.E. (2010). James Gregor, Marxism, Fascism and Totalitarianism, and Zeev Sternhell, The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition. Perspectives on Politics, 8(4), pp.1212-1214.
Crowder, G.E. (2004). Lo "sguardo da dentro" di Isaiah Berlin (Isaiah Berlin's "Inside View"). Contemporanea, VII(3), pp.468-478.
Crowder, G.E. (2004). Are post-modernists fascists? Australian Review of Public Affairs, 5(1), pp.1-4. [online]. Available from: http://econ.usyd.edu.au/drawingboard/digest/0410/crowder.html.
Crowder, G.E. (2003). Hedgehog and Fox. Australian Journal of Political Science, 38(2), pp.333-339.
Crowder, G.E. (2003). Political Philosophy: A beginners guide for students and politiciansby A Swift (Book Review). Australian Journal of Political Science, 38(1), pp.184-185.
Conference publications
Crowder, G. (2012). A Pluralist Case for Liberalism. In Which Democracy in the face of value conflict? Liberal pluralism and its critics.
Other public research outputs
Crowder, G.E. (2003). The Liberal's Dilemma. The Drawing Board.

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Professional and community engagement

Expertise for media contact

  • Contemporary political theory
  • History of political thought

Subject/s

  • Philosophy
  • Politics


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