Mark Bevir is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his D.Phil from Oxford University in 1989. A political theorist, his particular interests lie in the philosophy of the human sciences and the history of political thought. His teaching includes courses on post-structuralism and on approaches to the history of political thought. He is the author of The Logic of the History of Ideas (Cambridge University Press, 1999). He has also contributed numerous essays to journals and books. Some of these concern related issues, such as meaning and truth, concepts and texts, narrativity, and structure and agency, including "Mind and Method in the History of Ideas," History and Theory 36 (1997); and "Foucault and Critique: Deploying Agency against Autonomy," Political Theory 27 (1999). Other essays concern different issues such as the history of socialist thought, and interpretative approaches to British politics, including "William Morris: The Modern Self, Art, and Politics," History of European Ideas 24 (1998); and "Socialism, Civil Society and the State in Modern Britain", in F. Trentmann, ed., Paradoxes of Civil Society (1999).