Committee on Social Thought

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The Committee on Social Thought is an interdisciplinary graduate program at the University of Chicago known for its rigorous, theory-driven study of fundamental texts and ideas across the humanities and social sciences.

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instanceOf academic unit
graduate program
interdisciplinary graduate program
affiliation Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago
campus Hyde Park
country United States of America
surface form: United States
educationLevel graduate
emphasizes close reading of texts
cross-disciplinary inquiry
history of ideas
field humanities
social sciences
focusesOn fundamental ideas
fundamental texts
foundedBy University of Chicago faculty
foundedIn 1941
hasAbbreviation CST
hasAdmissionType selective
hasCharacteristic interdisciplinary
rigorous
theory-driven
hasNotableAlumni Adam Zagajewski
Allan Bloom
James Redfield
Saul Bellow
Susan Sontag
hasNotableFaculty Allan Bloom
David Grene
Hannah Arendt
Harold Rosenberg
Leo Strauss
Mircea Eliade
Saul Bellow
hasWebsite https://socialthought.uchicago.edu/
languageOfInstruction English
locatedIn Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: Chicago

Illinois
United States of America
surface form: United States
offersDegree MA
PhD
parentOrganization University of Chicago
partOf University of Chicago
specializesIn literature
philosophy
political theory
religious thought
social thought

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Social Sciences Division hasDepartment Committee on Social Thought
Humanities Division hasPart Committee on Social Thought
Jonathan Lear memberOf Committee on Social Thought
this entity surface form: Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago