Arthur Melzer is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University, specializing in political thought. He is also a co-founder and Executive director of the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy (also known as the LeFrak Forum), an independent research center housed in the Department, which is dedicated to the study of the theory and practice of modern democracy. Among many other writings, he is the author of a landmark work on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Natural Goodness of Man, and a work on esoteric writing, Philosophy Between the Lines.
(Biography adapted from Michigan State).