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Benjamin Lorch

Benjamin Lorch
  • Associate Professor
  • Faculty
  • Case Hall Room S321
  • 842 Chestnut Rd
  • East Lansing, MI 48825

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Lorch’s research is in the field of political philosophy. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Boston College and has published articles on classical and medieval political thought, on subjects such as political ambition and leadership, and religion and philosophy. He teaches in the first-year program, PTCD field, Jewish Studies program, and electives such as Political Leadership in the Twentieth Century, and War and Political Philosophy. His research currently focuses on Aristotle's moral philosophy.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Review of Leo Strauss on Plato's Euthyphro: the 1948 notebook, with lectures and critical writings, edited by Hannes Kerber and Svetozar Minkov, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, April 30, 2024

Review of Plato's Letters: The Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life by Ariel Helfer, forthcoming in Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, Fall 2024

Lorch, Benjamin. "Emil Fackenheim on Moses Maimonides and the 'One Great Difference between the Medievals and the Moderns,'" Emil Fackenheim's Post-Holocaust Thought and Its Philosophical Sources, edited by Kenneth Hart Green and Martin D. Yaffe (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021), pages 19-31. 2021.