Research

Professor Zurn specializes in social and political philosophy, the philosophy of law, and contemporary European philosophy. His work focuses on two main areas: deliberative democratic theories of constitutional democracy, and, issues in contemporary critical social theory.

Selected Publications

• Deliberative Democracy and the Institutions of Judicial Review (Cambridge University Press: 2007)
• New Waves in Political Philosophy, co-edited with Boudewijn de Bruin (Palgrave Macmillan: 2008)
• Anerkennung, co-edited with Hans-Christoph Schmidt am Busch (Akademie Verlag: 2009).  Forthcoming in English as The Philosophy of Recognition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
• "Jürgen Habermas" commissioned essay for History of Continental Philosophy, Volume 6:  Poststructuralism and Critical Theory:  The Return of Master Thinkers, ed. Alan D. Schrift (Acumen Press: forthcoming).
• "Social Pathologies as Second-Order Disorders," invited contribution to The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth, edited by Danielle Petherbridge (Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden: forthcoming).
• "Recognition, Redistribution, and Democracy: Dilemmas of Honneth's Critical Social Theory," European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 13, #1 (April 2005): 89-126.
• "Deliberative Democracy and Constitutional Review." Law and Philosophy, Vol. 21 (2002): 467-542.