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Thomas Dumm
Thomas Dumm is Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. Aside from Loneliness as a Way of Life, he is the author of four other books, and co-editor, with Frederick Dolan, of Rhetorical Republic (1993). He co-founded and served as first co-editor of the journal of contemporary political theory Theory & Event. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in 2001.