Research
Jan Mieszkowski received his B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University in 1990 and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1998. He has also studied in Paris and Berlin. His first book, Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser (Fordham University Press, 2006), explores the doctrine of human productivity that emerges at the intersection of the traditions inaugurated by Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment and Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. He is currently completing a new book about the relationship between literary and military experience since the Enlightenment entitled Watching War.