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- October 2005 / BPC professor joins humanities journal Editorial Board
BPC professor joins humanities journal Editorial Board
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DR. LEE CHEEK |
Dr. Lee Cheek, chair of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division at Brewton-Parker
College, was recently invited to join the Editorial Board of Humanitas, an
interdisciplinary journal dedicated to promoting the humanities, including
the social sciences.
Cheek formerly served as the editor of the
journal from 1988-1991. Humanitas is a publication of the National Humanities
Institute, a Washington-area “think
tank.”
Joseph Baldacchino, the current editor of the journal, said Cheek was asked
to join the board as the result of his academic accomplishments and scholarly
devotion to humane learning.
The purpose of the journal is to “foster
among its readers and contributors a spirit of open inquiry, a willingness
to subject cherished doctrines to challenge
and look beyond conventional categories of thought. Humanitas explores issues
of moral and social philosophy, epistemology, and aesthetics, and the relations
among them, such as the moral and cultural conditions of knowledge. Favorable
to an historical understanding of life, Humanitas explores the simultaneous
tension and union between universality and particularity, and the interdependence
and opposition of creativity and tradition. Fruitful new thinking will resist
reductionism and will, for example, distinguish between contrasting strains
within modernity and postmodernity.”
Cheek’s books include Political Philosophy
and Cultural Renewal (Transaction/Rutgers, 2001; with Kathy B. Cheek), and
Calhoun and Popular Rule (University of Missouri
Press, 2001; paper edition, 2004); Calhoun: Selected Writings and Speeches (Regnery, 2003), and Order
and Legitimacy (Transaction/Rutgers, 2004). He has
also published more than 50 journal articles in publications such as the Journal
of Politics, Methodist History, International Social Science
Review, and is
a regular commentator on American politics.
Cheek's current research includes completing an intellectual biography of
Francis Graham Wilson and a study of the political thought of Patrick Henry.
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