Bryan-Paul Frost, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Lafayette, Louisiana 70504-1652

337-482-5692 (v), 337-482-6170 (f), e-mail: bfrost@louisiana.edu

Recipient of the Elias “Bo” Ackal, Jr./BORSF Endowed Professor of Political Science.

Ph.D. conferred 1996, University of Toronto, Department of Political Science. Major field:

Political Theory; minor fields: International Relations and Comparative Politics.

Dissertation: “A Critical Introduction to the Political Philosophy of Alexandre Kojève.”

BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES:

The Political Theory of Aristophanes: Explorations in Poetic Wisdom, edited by Bryan-Paul

Frost and Jeremy John Mhire (New York: SUNY Press, forthcoming).

Political Reason in the Age of Ideology: Essays in Honor of Raymond Aron, edited by Bryan-

Paul Frost and Daniel Mahoney (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007).

History of American Political Thought, edited by Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga

(Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2003).

Alexandre Kojève’s Outline of a Phenomenology of Right, translated, with notes and

introductory essay by Bryan-Paul Frost and Robert Howse, edited by Bryan-Paul Frost (Lanham,

MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000). Paperback edition by Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

JOURNAL ARTICLES (peer refereed):

“Tocqueville’s Worst Fears Realized? The Political Implications of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s

Transcendental Spiritualism,” The St. John’s Review (forthcoming).

“Preliminary Reflections on the Rhetoric of Aristotle’s Rhetoric,” Expositions 2 (no. 2, 2008),

163–88.

“Better Late Than Never: Raymond Aron’s Theory of International Relations and Its Prospects

in the 21st Century,” Politics and Policy 34 (September 2006), 506–31.

“A Critical Introduction to Alexandre Kojève’s Esquisse d’une phénoménologie du droit,”

Review of Metaphysics 52 (March 1999), 595–640.

“Resurrecting a Neglected Theorist: The Philosophical Foundations of Raymond Aron’s Theory

of International Relations,” Review of International Studies 23 (Spring 1997), 143–66.

“An Interpretation of Plutarch’s Cato the Younger,” History of Political Thought 18 (Spring

1997), 1–23.

“The Specificity and Autonomy of Right: Alexandre Kojève’s Legal Philosophy,” Interpretation

24 (Fall 1996), 25–65. This is co-authored by Robert Howse.

“Raymond Aron’s Peace and War, Thirty Years Later,” International Journal 51 (Spring 1996),

339–61.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS/JOURNAL ARTICLES:

“Realism Meets Historical Sociology: Raymond Aron’s Peace and War,” in Classics of

International Relations, eds. H. Bliddal, C. Sylvest, and P. Wilson (forthcoming, London:

Routledge, 2013).

“Raymond’s Aron’s Pedagogical Constitution, and the Pursuit of Liberal Education,” in

Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Studies in Thinking in Action, eds. John von Heyking and Lee

Trepanier (forthcoming, Lexington Press, 2013).

“Corrupting or Edifying? The Role of Philosophy in Roman Civic Education According to Cato

the Elder and Cicero,” in Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle, ed.

Timothy Burns (Lanham, MD.: Lexington Press, 2010), 379–97.

“Introduction: The Enduring Relevance of Raymond Aron” (co-authored with Daniel J.

Mahoney); English translation of Stanley Hoffmann, “Raymond Aron and Alexis de

Tocqueville”; and “An Introduction to Raymond Aron: The Political Teachings of the Memoirs,”

in Political Reason in the Age of Ideology: Essays in Honor of Raymond Aron, edited by Bryan-

Paul Frost and Daniel Mahoney (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2007), 1–8, 105–

23, and 285–307, respectively.

“Raymond Aron on the End of the History of International Relations,” Perspectives on Political

Science 35 (Spring 2006), 75–82. To be reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism (Cengage

Learning, forthcoming 2012).

“Mais vale tarde do que nunca: a teoria das relações internacionais de Raymond Aron e as suas

perspectivas face ao século XXI,” Relações Internacionais 7 (September 2005), 5–24. (This is a

Portugese translation and shortened version of “Better Late Than Never: Raymond Aron’s

Theory of International Relations and Its Prospects in the 21st Century.” The journal is published

by the Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais.)

“Religion, Nature, and Disobedience in the Thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David

Thoreau,” in History of American Political Thought, edited by Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey

Sikkenga (Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2003), 355–75.

“Is a Global Liberal Democratic Order Inevitable?” in Globalization: Will Freedom or World

Government Dominate the International Marketplace? Vol. 29, Ludwig von Mises Lecture

Series (Hillsdale, MI: Hillsdale College Press, 2002), 103–24.

BOOK REVIEWS/REVIEW ESSAYS:

“Review of Paul Hollander, Extravagant Expectations: New Ways to Find Romantic Love in

America,” Society 49 (no. 3, 2012), 302–304.

“Review of J. S. Maloy, The Colonial American Origins of Modern Democratic Thought,”

Canadian Journal of Political Science 44 (2011), 965–66.

“Review of James H. Nichols, Jr., Alexandre Kojève: Wisdom at the End of History,” Society 48

(no. 2, 2011), 192–94.

“Review of Reed M. Davis, A Politics of Understanding: The International Thought of Raymond

Aron,” Society 47 (no. 6, 2010), 554–56.

“Review of Alain Besançon, A Century of Horrors: Communism, Nazism, and the Uniqueness of

the Shoah,” Society 46 (no. 1, 2009), 90–92.

“Review of David Pryce-Jones, Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews,” Society 45 (no. 2,

2008), 208–9.

“Review of Pierre Manent, A World beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State,”

Perspectives on Political Science 36 (no. 4, 2007), 231–32.

“Review of Paul Hollander, ed., From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of

Political Violence and Repression in Communist States,” Society 44 (no. 4, 2007), 83–85.

“Review of R. R. Palmer, Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution,”

Perspectives on Political Science 35 (Summer 2006), 173.

“Alexandre Kojève,” in Europe since 1914: Encyclopaedia of War and Reconstruction, eds.

John Merriman and Jay Winter, vol. 3 (Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006), 1577–79.

“Defending the War in Iraq,” Society 43 (no. 6, 2006), 94–100. A review essay of Gary Rosen,

ed., The Right War?: The Conservative Debate in Iraq and Thomas Cushman, ed., A Matter of

Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq.

“Alexandre Kojève,” in Gallery of Russian Thinkers, http://www.isfp.co.uk/russian_thinkers,

School of Russian and Asian Studies, Moscow State University,

http://www.sras.org/news2.phtml?m=495, ed. Dmitry Olshansky (March 2006).

“Review of Paul Hollander, ed., Understanding Anti-Americanism: Its Origins and Impact at

Home and Abroad,” Society 43 (no. 3, 2006), 87–89.

“Individualism, Emersonian Style,” Polity 37 (no. 2, 2005), 286–93. A review essay of Lawrence

Buell, Emerson, Peter S. Field, Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual,

George Kateb, Emerson and Self-Reliance, and Kenneth S. Sacks, Understanding Emerson:

“The American Scholar” and His Struggle for Self-Reliance.

“Review of Bernard Henry-Lévy, War, Evil, and the End of History,” Society 42 (no. 5, 2005),

86–88.

“Review of Tzvetan Todorov, Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century,” Society

42 (no. 1, 2004), 92–94.

“Heaven on Earth—Yours, at a Price,” Books in Canada 24 (November 1995), 19–21. This is a

review of recent Canadian contributions to Kojève scholarship, especially Shadia B. Drury’s

book, Alexandre Kojève: The Roots of Postmodern Politics.