Rights of Man
Thomas Paine is a curious character, whose legacy is hard to assess. But perhaps this is why it is all the more important to (re)read him. His difficulties, ambiguities, and ambivalences, in the midst of the eighteenth-century “Age of Revolutions,” … Continue reading →
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Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Video of lecture by Jill Fellows for the “Remake/Remodel” theme
The Prince
For a political writer renowned for his commitment to realism–to real politik, indeed–it’s remarkable, and surely significant, that Niccolò Machiavelli should open and close The Prince with a couple of extended metaphors. The resort to literary tropes frames what is … Continue reading →