Mewes, Horst

Horst Mewes teaches political theory at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He holds his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where he studied political philosophy with Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss. Mewes has taught at the University of Tuebingen and currently at Catolica University in Lisbon (Portugal). His publications focus on various aspects of the development and nature of modern liberal democracy, including issues of modern citizenship and private and public freedoms.