THE AUTHOR
C. Fred Alford is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught for thirty-eight years. He is author of over fifteen books on moral psychology, including Trauma and Forgiveness, After the Holocaust, and Psychology and the Natural Law of Reparation, all from Cambridge University Press. Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power was published by Cornell University Press in 2001. Professor Alford served as Executive Director of the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society for a dozen years. He is Co-editor of the Psychoanalysis and Society Book Series with Cornell University Press. He has served as President of the Psychology and Politics section of the American Political Science Association, and sits on the editorial boards of more than half a dozen journals. He has published many dozens of journal articles, book chapters, and Encyclopedia articles on everything from whistleblowing to natural law. He is currently a contributing editor at The Montreal Review. Most of his publications have been in the field of psychoanalytic social theory, a perspective he and his colleague Jim Glass helped found in the United States. It is longer and better represented in England.
Professor Alford is not a professional theologian, but he has published books on natural law, which begins with Augustine and Aquinas, and another book on Emmanuel Levinas, a French theologian and post-modern philosopher.
See godblog | thoughts on God and theology and About trauma for more on Professor Alford's work.
ESSAYS 2021 | 2024
Winter Landscape (1970) by Anselm Kiefer at The Met Fifth Avenue
THE WILD GODS OF BARBARA EHRENREICH AND WILLIAM JAMES
THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS
LITERARY THEORY IS NOT TRAUMA THEORY
CASTE, HATE, AND THE TRAUMA OF FORGIVENESS
HEAVEN CAN WAIT: 3 VIEWS OF HEAVEN
ALBERT CAMUS, THE PLAGUE, AND BELIEF IN GOD
JOHN YODER: RADICAL THEOLOGY AND SIN
ON THE BEST-SELLING BIBLE SELF-HELP BOOK EVER
CREATION SCIENCE MAKES SENSE, BUT...
CAMUS' ABSURDISM LACKS IMAGINATION
REINHOLD NIEBUHR AND THE SCANDAL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
BOOKS BY C. FRED ALFORD God Now: Christianity and Heresy (Eugene Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2019)
Trauma, Culture, and PTSD (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Trauma and Forgiveness: Consequences and Community (New York and Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Narrative, Nature, and the Natural Law: From Aquinas to International Human Rights (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
After the Holocaust: The Book of Job, Primo Levi, and the Path to Affliction (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Psychology and the Natural Law of Reparation (New York: Cambridge University Press,, 2006)
Rethinking Freedom: Why Freedom Has Lost Its Meaning and What Can Be Done To Save It (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) [Translated into Chinese by China Renmin University Press, 2017]
Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and the Frankfurt School (Middletown and London: Wesleyan University Press and Continuum Books, 2002)
Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001) [Reprinted in paperback, 2002]
Think No Evil: Korean Values in the Age of Globalization (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999) [translated into Korean as Report on the Psychology of the Korean People, 2000]
What Evil Means to Us (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997) [translated into Korean by Goldenbough Press, 2004]
The Man Who Couldn't Lie: Essays and Stories About An Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry (Huntington, West Virginia: Aegina Press, 1995)
Group Psychology and Political Theory (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994)
The Psychoanalytic Theory of Greek Tragedy (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992) [reissued in paperback by Yale, 2005]
The Self in Social Theory: A Psychoanalytic Account of its Construction in Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Rawls (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991)
Melanie Klein and Critical Social Theory: An Account of Politics, Art, and Reason Based on Her Psychoanalytic Theory (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989) [reissued in paperback by Yale, 2005]
Narcissism: Socrates, the Frankfurt School, and Psychoanalytic Theory (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988) [reissued as an e-book by Jason Aronson, 2015]
Science and the Revenge of Nature: Marcuse and Habermas (Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1985)
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