# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-bethke-elshtain
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:53:29.682Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-bethke-elshtain"
name: "Jean Bethke Elshtain"
slug: "jean-bethke-elshtain"
description: "Jean Paulette Bethke Elshtain was an American ethicist, political philosopher, and public intellectual. She was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the University of Chicago Divinity School with a joint appointment in the department of political science."
tagline: "American ethicist, political philosopher, and public intellectual (1941–2013)"
gender: "female"
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birthDate: "1941-01-06"
deathDate: "2013-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump