Augustine, Arendt, and Melanie Klein: The (De)Privation of Evil

Professor of Government at the University of Maryland, College Park. Author of over a dozen books in moral psychology, his three most recent books are: Why Freedom Has Lost its Meaning and What Can Be Done To Save It (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and the Frankfurt School (Middletown and London: Wesleyan University Press and Continuum Books, 2002), Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001). Professor Alford is President of the Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association, and Executive Director of the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society. He sits on the editorial boards of five professional journals, has received two senior Fulbright Fellowships, and has published over 50 articles and book chapters in the field of moral psychology.