Mark Kingwell

Research interests: social and political theory; philosophy of art, architecture and design; 20th-century continental philosophy.

Major publications: Books: A Civil Tongue (1995); Dreams of Millennium (1997); Better Living (1998); Marginalia (1999); The World We Want (2000); Practical Judgments (2002); Catch and Release (2003); Nothing for Granted (2005); Nearest Thing to Heaven (2006); Concrete Reveries (2008); Opening Gambits (2008); Glenn Gould (2009); ed., with Patrick Turmel, Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space (2009).

Articles: "Is It Rational To Be Polite?" (1993); “Interpretation, Dialogue, and the Just Citizen” (1993); “Madpeople and Ideologues” (1994); “Let’s Ask Again: Is Law Like Literature?” (1994); “The Plain Truth About Common Sense” (1995); “Defending Political Virtue” (1996); “Two Concepts of Pluralism” (1998); “Husserl’s Sense of Wonder” (2000); “Meganarratives of Supermodernism” (2006); "Building Dwelling Acting" (2009); "Masters of Chancery: The Gift of Public Space" (2009).

Visiting posts: Cambridge University (1999); University of California at Berkeley (2000); City University of New York (Weissman Distinguished Professor of Humanities, 2002).

Major awards: Spitz Prize for political theory (1997); Drummer-General’s award for non-fiction (1998); National Magazine Awards for essay-writing (2002) and columns (2004); honorary DFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, for contributions to theory and criticism (2000).