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...pursuit of political philosophy has led some men far afield it took Plato to Syracuse. Rousseau to Geneva, and Marx to London. For Michael J. Sandel, it has led from the halls of Oxford University to the Soldiers Field softball diamond...
...Sandel, an associate professor of Government, has been described as "a promising political theorist, the most prominent in his generation," as well as a "versatile" regular in the Government Department's Saturday morning softball games...
...course, it was not Sandel's fielding that caused the department to offer him a job four years ago. Professor Michael Walzer, now director of the Institute for Advanced Study, was a member of the search committee that selected Sandel. Walzer said that the manuscript of Sandel's first book. Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, published in 1983, was an important factor in the decision...
...less technical area. Moral Reasoning 22 was popular because of "the inherent interest of the subject," said Michael J Sandel, professor of the course The challenge of political theory creates an "exhilarating, risky, and dangerous" course, he added...
...Sandel said he plans to take a one year leave of absence next fall from his two University courses--Government 90b and Moral Reasoning 22--and use his $35,000 award to write a book on American liberalism...