Benjamin Lee (academic)
Benjamin Lee is a professor of anthropology and philosophy at The New School, where he also served as provost from 2006 until 2008. Lee's primary academic interests include contemporary China; the cultural dimensions of globalization, particularly the effects of global financial flows; and modern theories of language.
Lee graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in psychology and later attended the University of Chicago, where he received an MA in human development and a PhD in anthropology.Selected publications
- From Primitives to Derivatives
- Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk
- "The Subjects of Circulation," in U. Hedetoft and M. Hjort
- The Postnational Self: Belonging and Identity
- "Cultures of Circulation: The Imaginations of Modernity," Public Culture
- "Peoples and Publics," Public Culture
- Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity
- "Critical Internationalism," Public Culture
- "Going Public," Public Culture
- Semiotics, Self, and Society
- Semiotic Origins of the Mind Body Dualism
- Developmental Approaches to the Self
- Psychosocial Theories of the Self
- The Development of Adaptive Intelligence
