Rodrigo Chacón is a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University. He works at the intersection between the history of political and philosophical ideas, with a special focus on twentieth-century continental European thought. His recent research has sought to retrieve the radical or anti-dogmatic potential contained in the work of the young Leo Strauss. He has published on ethics in Hannah Arendt in History of European Ideas; the Heideggerian origins of Strauss’s political philosophy in the European Journal of Political Theory; and the phenomenological critique of Kantian rationalism in The Review of Politics. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the rebirth of political philosophy in the Weimar thought of Leo Strauss. His broader teaching and research interests include classical political philosophy (especially Aristotle), social theory, the philosophy and methods of the social sciences, and international political thought (especially sovereignty, human rights, and borders).

At Harvard, he has taught the history of modern philosophical and political thought from Hobbes to Marx (Social Studies 10a); Nietzsche to Habermas (10b); and Heidegger to Gadamer (Social Studies 98ng: Heidegger and Social Thought). Chacón has also taught at Eugene Lang College in New York, the Technische Universität Dresden and Boston College. In recognition of his teaching, he was awarded the Stanley Hoffmann Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2012. He received his PhD in political science from The New School for Social Research in 2010.   

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