Nicholas Poole

I am a PhD candidate in the program for Social and Political Thought at York University, Canada. My research interests lie in democratic theory, political aesthetics, the history of political thought, and participatory politics. I am currently completing a dissertation that interprets the work of Hannah Arendt from the perspective of her appeal to exempla as the appropriate kinds of normative standards for democratic judgment in pluralistic societies. I am also preparing a book manuscript that develops the core insights of my dissertation in conversation with ongoing debates in contemporary democratic theory. I am based in Victoria, B.C., traditional territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən people.