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