Michael Sandel
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| Born | Michael Joseph Sandel March 5, 1953 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Awards | American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002) |
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| Education | |
| Thesis | Liberalism and the Problem of the Moral Subject (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Taylor |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Republicanism |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral students | Yascha Mounk |
| Notable students | Ketanji Brown Jackson |
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| Notable works | |
| Notable ideas | Communitarian critique of liberalism |
| Part of the Politics series |
| Republicanism |
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Michael Joseph Sandel (/sænˈdɛl/; born March 5, 1953) is an American political philosopher and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where his course Justice was the university's first course to be made freely available online and on television. It has been viewed by tens of millions of people around the world, including in China, where Sandel was named the 2011 "most influential foreign figure of the year" (China Newsweek).
He is known for his critique of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice in his first book, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.