Mathis Bitton
Graduate Associate
Government Department
Harvard University
Email: [email protected]
Biography
Mathis Bitton is a Ph.D. student in Harvard's Government Department studying political theory and intellectual history. His interests include Chinese political thought, liberalism and its critics, the politics of technology, and democratic theory. His current work focuses on 20th-century critiques of technology, as well as on the reception of continental philosophy in contemporary China. Mathis received a B.A. in Political Science from Yale College.
Selected publications
- Book · 2026 A Bounded Web: Platforms and the Crisis of Social Life Cambridge University Press How platforms replaced self-governing associations with porous networks, and a democratic approach to tech policy.
- Article · 2026 Is Innovation Good for the Soul? Joseph Soloveitchik and the Virtue Ethics of Technological Progress The Journal of Politics
- Article · 2026 Nietzsche on Decadence as Freedom Philosophy & Social Criticism Reads Nietzsche's idea of decadence as a time of freedom for exceptional individuals.
- Article · 2025 A conservatism of the left: G.A. Cohen and Michael Oakeshott on markets and instrumentality European Journal of Political Theory G. A. Cohen and Michael Oakeshott share a philosophical conservatism but disagree on markets.
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