Sean Erwin

I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Barry University, a Catholic University in Miami Shores, Florida. My research analyzes the nature of power in political philosophy concentrating specifically on the works of Machiavelli, Spinoza, Deleuze and Foucault. Focusing on a notion of force as the concrete effect of the action of differentials, I analyze the political practices following from institutional frameworks from a non-teleological historical viewpoint. I am currently completing a book-length project on Machiavelli titled, A War of One’s Own: Mercenaries, Auxiliaries and Mixed Forces in Machiavelli. Here I examine power as the non-substantive effect of historical difference. As such my work is especially relevant to political science discussions of the possibility for radically democratic participatory actions within totalitarian modern state frameworks. For more information see erwinsean.com