Tracy B. Strong is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy within Politics & International Relations at the University of Southampton and Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego. He is the author of several books including Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration (currently in its third edition); The Idea of Political Theory: Reflections on the Self in Political Time and Space and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Politics of the Ordinary (second edition), as well as the editor or co-editor of Nietzsche’s New Seas, The Self and the Political Order, Public Space and Democracy, and The One and the Many: Ethical Pluralism in Contemporary Perspectives. He has written numerous articles and essays in a variety of journals. His most recent book is Politics without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century (Chicago, 2012) [Winner of the David Easton Prize, 2013]. He is currently working on a book on music, language, and politics in the period that extends from Rousseau to Nietzsche. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Rockefeller Foundation, has been Visiting Professor at the Juan March Instituto in Spain and Warwick University in England, and was a Fellow at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University (2002-03). From 1990 until 2000 he was Editor of Political Theory. His Learning Our Native Tongue: Citizenship, Conflict and Contestationis in production at the University of Chicago Press. SPONSORS Program for the Study of Religion, Third World Studies Program, and the Department of Political Science PROGRAM ORGANIZER Babak Rahimi Associate Professor, Literature Department Director, Program for the Study of Religion and Third World Studies Program