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Eric Nelson

 

Eric Nelson

Assistant Professor of Government
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1737 Cambridge st.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Office Hours: 2:30-4:30 Wednesdays, or by appointment

Biographical Note:

Eric Nelson is Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is chiefly interested in the history of republican political theory, the reception of classical political thought in early-modern Europe, theories of property, and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. Nelson is the author of The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and editor of Hobbes's translations of the Iliad and Odyssey for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes (Oxford University Press, in press). His work may also be found in Renaissance Quarterly, Political Theory, The Historical Journal, Milton Studies, The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, and The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy. He is currently at work on a study of the ways in which the Christian encounter with Hebrew sources transformed republican political thought in early-modern Europe. Nelson has also been a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a British Marshall Scholar.