University of Cambridge historian John Robertson will be delivering this year's Robert P. Benedict Lectures on the History of Political…
Robert P. Benedict Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy
Thomas Hobbes
The Fantastic Mr. Hobbes
Some readers of Minding the Modern have been surprised to find my account so firmly critical of Thomas Hobbes on will…
Ancient questions for modern answers
The central contrast in Thomas Pfau’s rich and rewarding book, Minding the Modern, is between two radically opposed views of…
Stacking the deck: Thomas Pfau’s strange history of the West
Imagine that you’ve been invited to play a game of cards with Thomas Pfau and his cards are called Justice,…
Not for the squeamish
Paul Kahn has written a remarkable meditation on Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology. A truly adequate response would undoubtedly require a…