Patrick Deneen (political theorist)

Patrick Deneen
Born	(1964-07-21) July 21, 1964 (age 59)
Spouse	Inge Deneen
Academic background
Education	Rutgers University, New Brunswick (BA, MA, PhD) University of Chicago
Thesis	The Odyssey of Political Theory (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Wilson Carey McWilliams
Other advisors	Benjamin Barber
Influences	Wendell Berry Christopher Lasch Alexis de Tocqueville
Academic work
Discipline	Political science
Sub-discipline	Constitutional studies political theory
School or tradition	Communitarianism Conservatism Participatory democracy Postliberalism Roman Catholicism
Institutions	Princeton University Georgetown University University of Notre Dame
Notable works	Why Liberalism Failed (2018)
Website	patrickjdeneen.com

Patrick J. Deneen (born 1964) is an American political theorist, author, and public intellectual, who is a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame.^[1] In 2018, he came to prominence with the publishing of his book, Why Liberalism Failed.