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25The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought - Volume 2: The Twentieth Century and Beyond (edited book, review)Broadview Press. 2008.The second volume of this comprehensive anthology covers the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The anthology is broad ranging both in its selection of material by figures traditionally acknowledged as being of central importance, and in the material it presents by a range of other figures. The material in this volume is presented in three sections. The first, “Power and the State,” includes selections by such figures as Goldman, Lenin, Weber, Schmitt, and Hayek. Among those included in…Read more
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84The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: From Machiavelli to Nietzsche (edited book)Broadview Press. 2017.This volume contains many of the most important texts in western political and social thought from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth century. A number of key works, including Machiavelli’s _The Prince_, Locke’s _Second Treatise_, and Rousseau’s _The Social Contract_, are included in their entirety. Alongside these central readings are a diverse range of texts from authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Sojourner Truth, and Henry David Thoreau. The editors have made every effort to include…Read more
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8Charles Taylor: A Biographical SketchIn Jacob Levy, Jocelyn Maclure & Daniel Weinstock (eds.), Interpreting Modernity: Essays on the Work of Charles Taylor, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 3-18. 2020.
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What it Means to be a PluralistIn Yitzhak Benbaji & Naomi Sussmann (eds.), Reading Walzer, Routledge. 2013.
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Constitutional historyIn Keegan Callanan & Sharon R. Krause (eds.), The Cambridge companion to Montesquieu, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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22Contra politanismEuropean Journal of Political Theory 19 (2): 162-183. 2020.This article diagnoses and critiques pervasive forms of teleological thought about basic structures of political organization in modern and contemporary political thought: arguments that the sovereign state, the nation-state, or some variant of a cosmopolis both represents the unfolding of history’s moral logic and offers us full moral personhood, agency, and maturity. Despite the received wisdom that modern political thought broke with teleology, I argue that early modern social contract theory…Read more
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