Neal Wood
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Born | Neal Norman Wood 10 September 1922 Los Angeles, California, US |
Died | 17 September 2003 Devon, England | (aged 81)
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School or tradition | Marxism |
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Neal Norman Wood (September 10, 1922 – September 17, 2003).
Biography
Born in
Between 1958 and 1963, Wood taught at Columbia University. He then accepted an appointment at the University of California, Los Angeles before taking up, in 1966, a chair in political science at the newly established York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He and his wife, Ellen Meiksins Wood, with whom he co-authored several studies, became Canadian citizens. He retired from York in 1988, and settled in England a decade later, where he died of cancer in Devon on 17 September 2003.
The Woods had one son, Cody Markwell Wood, who died suddenly in 1984. Cody had one daughter, Chantal Ferris, born in 1975, who currently resides in Canada.[citation needed]
His final book, a jeremiad against the direction of his country of origin entitled Tyranny in America: Capitalism and National Decay, appeared posthumously in 2004.
Published works
- Communism and British Intellectuals, Columbia University Press, 1959.
- Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in Social Context, with Ellen Meiksins Wood, Blackwell, 1978.
- The Politics of Locke's Philosophy: A Social Study of "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding", University of California Press, 1983.
- John Locke and Agrarian Capitalism, University of California Press, 1984.
- Cicero's Social and Political Thought, University of California Press, 1988.
- Foundations of Political Economy: Some Early Tudor Views on State and Society, University of California Press, 1994.
- A Trumpet of Sedition: Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism, with Ellen Meiksins Wood, New York University Press, 1997.
- Reflections on Political Theory: A Voice of Reason from the Past, Palgrave, 2002.
- Tyranny in America: Capitalism and National Decay, Verso, 2004.