19 Facts About Mark Bevir

Mark Bevir was born on 18 February 1963 and is a British philosopher of history.

Mark Bevir is a professor of political science and the Director of the Center for British Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he currently teaches courses on political theory and philosophy, public policy and organisation, and methodology.

Mark Bevir is a Professor in the Graduate School of Governance, United Nations University and a Distinguished Research Professor in the College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University.

Mark Bevir's family was broadly humanist and impressed upon Bevir the importance of reading, self-expression and seeking personal growth.

Mark Bevir lectured at the University of Madras and at Newcastle University before he moved to Berkeley.

Mark Bevir has been a visiting fellow at universities in Australia, Finland, France, the UK, and the US.

Mark Bevir has published extensively in philosophy, history, and political science literatures.

Mark Bevir's interests are diverse, including Anglophone, continental, and South Asian thought, particularly radical, socialist, and critical theory of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Mark Bevir is the author of The Logic of the History of Ideas, which builds on the work of analytic philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Donald Davidson to "undertake a normative study of the forms of reasoning appropriate to the history of ideas".

Mark Bevir's approach is intended to complement, and not directly oppose, the Cambridge School of history of political thought which focuses on recovering meanings of historical texts, and hermeneutic theorists concerned with the phenomenology of understanding.

Rather, Mark Bevir introduces the idea of a normative approach that hinges on using traditions and dilemmas to understand beliefs and more complex webs of meaning, key concepts that underpin his work on interpretive political science and governance theory.

Mark Bevir is the author of several works defending the interpretive turn in the human sciences.

Mark Bevir holds that political science must necessarily be an interpretive art.

Mark Bevir has thus provided an elaborate philosophical foundation for a decentred theory of governance woven together by the notions of beliefs, traditions and dilemmas.

Mark Bevir first published his decentred theory of governance in a 2003 paper.

Mark Bevir argues that decentred theory supports democratic participation and pluralism.

Mark Bevir published a number of articles on the topic and then The Making of British Socialism.

Mark Bevir argues that British socialism arose as people revised various traditions in response to economic and religious dilemmas.

Mark Bevir suggests that earlier socialists focused on social justice, radical democratic schemes, and utopian personal and social transformations.