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TheJohn U. Nef Committee on Social Thought is one of severalPhD-granting committees at theUniversity of Chicago. It was started in 1941 by economic historianJohn Ulric Nef along with economistFrank Knight, anthropologistRobert Redfield, and University PresidentRobert Maynard Hutchins.
The committee is interdisciplinary and it is not centered on any specific topic; rather, the committee has, since its inception, drawn together noted academics and writers to "foster awareness of the permanent questions at the origin of all learned inquiry".[1]
Notable past members of and students on the committee have included
Eliot, Bellow, Coetzee, Hayek, and Fogel have been awardedNobel Prizes.
Current[when?] faculty includereligion scholarWendy Doniger, theologianDavid Tracy, sociologistHans Joas, literary theoristThomas Pavel, theorist of German literatureDavid Wellbery, classicistJames M. Redfield, philosopher and psychoanalystJonathan Lear, philosopherRobert B. Pippin, classicist Laura M. Slatkin, historian of scienceLorraine Daston, physician and philosopherLeon Kass (former chairman of thePresident's Council on Bioethics), political theorist Nathan Tarcov, art historianAndrei Pop, poetRosanna Warren, philosopher Gabriel Richardson Lear, historian Joel Isaac, historian Jonathan Levy, classicist Mark Payne, and political theorist Jennifer Pitts.[3]
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