Reid Kleinberg

Biography

I am a political theorist with an interest in continental philosophy, contemporary left-wing politics, and the fate of the nation-state in our globalizing world. My dissertation utilized post-structuralist discourse theory and contemporary political theory to investigate the normative and strategic problems that arise when left-populist movements attempt to articulate the 'nation' as empty signifiers or privileged nodes in their discourse. I focused on the case of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's 2017 presidential campaign in France. I have been published in The New Pretender, the Journal of Political Power and with Bloomsbury.

Qualifications

• MA The University of Chicago (2018)

• BA Hobart and William Smith Colleges (2016)

Thesis