Jan Blits
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jan H. Blits is an American educational researcher and professor emeritus in the University of Delaware School of Education. He is also the president of the Delaware chapter of the National Association of Scholars . He received the Prometheus Award from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education in 2009, and the Jeane Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in 2011. Along with his colleague Linda Gottfredson he helped to shut down a Residence Life Program at the University of Delaware in 2007, which the NAS had described as an "indoctrination center". Blits also worked with Gottfredson during the university's attempts to prevent them from receiving research funding from the eugenics-related Pioneer Fund in the early 1990s. Blits and Gottfredson succeeded, and were allowed to accept funds from the organization.
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Published Works
- Hobbesian Fear (1989) (29)
- Privacy and Public Moral Education: Aristotle's Critique of the Family (1985) (18)
- Equality or lasting inequality? (1990) (16)
- Employment Testing and Job Performance. (1990) (14)
- The Insufficiency of Virtue: Macbeth and the Natural Order (1996) (6)
- Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human Soul (2001) (6)
- The Heart of Rome: Ancient Rome's Political Culture (2013) (5)
- The Holy and Human: An Interpretation of Plato's Euthyphro (1980) (5)
- The Soul of Athens: Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (2003) (4)
- Equality of Opportunity and the Problem of Nature (1990) (3)
- Redeeming Lost Honor: Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece (2009) (3)
- Manliness and Friendship in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1981) (3)
- TOCQUEVILLE ON DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION: THE PROBLEM OF PUBLIC PASSIVITY (1997) (3)
- Natural death and moral individuality. (1980) (2)
- The Depersonalized‐Self: Rousseau's Emile (1991) (2)
- The silenced partner: Linda Gottfredson and the University of Delaware (1991) (2)
- New Heaven, New Earth: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (2009) (2)
- Caesarism and the End of Republican Rome: Julius Caesar, Act I, scene i (1981) (2)
- Spirit, Soul, and City: Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus' (2006) (2)
- Self-Knowledge and the Modern Mode of Learning (1989) (2)
- The American University: Problems, Prospects, and Trends. (1985) (1)
- The end of the ancient republic : essays on Julius Caesar (1982) (1)
- Horatio’s Stoic philosophy (2018) (0)
- DEADLY UNITY (2007) (0)
- Plato's Cleitophon: On Socrates and the Modern Mind (2004) (0)
- Locke's Education for Liberty.Nathan Tarcov (1986) (0)
- List of reviewers (2021) (0)
- ALL ABOUT HIM (2007) (0)
- Shakespeare's Rome: Republic and Empire. By Cantor Paul A.. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1976. Pp. 228. $12.50.) (1978) (0)
- Philosophy (and Athens) in Decay: Timon of Athens (2016) (0)
- Edmund Burke and the Critique of Political Radicalism.Michael Freeman (1982) (0)
- HOBBESIAN DUALISM: HOBBES'S THEORY OF MOTION (1990) (0)
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