Nick O'Donovan

O’Donovan is Ph.D. candidate in political theory. His dissertation explores the assumption that politics require a common normative foundation prominent both in contemporary political philosophy and contemporary political practice. O’Donovan’s work focuses primarily on German political thought from Kant through Habermas. His research interests include understandings of “totalitarianism”, the philosophy of social science (in particular, the Positivismusstreit of the 1960s) and leadership and political responsibility.