Timothy Berk

PhD, University of Toronto

MA, University of Toronto

BA, Carleton University

Articles and Book Chapters

"Rustic Republics and völkische Vaterländer: Rousseau and Heidegger's Rural Political Visions." The Review of Politics (forthcoming, 2026).

"Only (a) God Can Save Us: Grant and Heidegger's Competing Responses to Technological Nihilism," in Reading George Grant in the 21st Century. Edited by Tyler Chamberlain. London: Palgrave (2024).

"Dialogue, Dasein, and Destiny: Heidegger's Challenge to Dialogical Comparative Political Theory." Comparative Political Theory 3, vol. 1 (May 2023): 1-31.

"The Ethics of Nationalism." Studies on National Movements 9 (Aug 2022): 124-143.

I study critics of liberalism and modernity from Rousseau to the present, with a particular emphasis on Heidegger and his philosophic and political heirs and critics. My research draws on traditions of Counter-Enlightenment political thought in order to better understand and respond to contemporary challenges facing liberal democracies, including radicalization, ethnonationalism, and rural-urban polarization. 

POSC 260: Foundations of Political Thought

POSC 385: Liberalism and Modernity in Crisis