DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Interests

Research Interest(s): Political Theory, Comparative Political Theory, Chinese Political Thought

Program Area(s): Political Theory

Biography

Loubna El Amine teaches political theory, with a particular focus on early Chinese political thought. Her first book, Classical Confucian Political Thought: A New Interpretation, was published in 2015 by Princeton University Press. She is currently working on a second book, tentatively titled Beyond Freedom and Slavery: Status and Membership in the Ancient Confucian Political Community. She holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University and a BA in Political Studies from the American University of Beirut.

Book

• Classical Confucian Political Thought: A New Interpretation (Princeton University Press, 2015).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• "Political Liberalism, Western History, and the Conjectural Non-West," Political Theory (June 2020).
• "On the Liberatory Potential of the Past: The Case of Non-Feudal China," Journal of World Philosophies 4:1 (June 2019).
• "Beyond East and West: A reorientation of political theory through the prism of modernity," Perspectives on Politics (March 2016).

Book Chapters

• “The family-state analogy in the Mencius,” Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy (forthcoming). 

Awards

• Henry Luce Foundation/American Council for Learned Societies Program in China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, September 2017-August 2018.
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, September 2017-August 2018.