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Name
  
Eric Nelson



Education
  
Harvard University, University of Cambridge

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada

Eric Nelson is an American historian and Professor of Government at Harvard University.

He received his A.B. from Harvard University (1999) and his PhD from The University of Cambridge (2002).

His scholarly interests include the reception of classical political thought in early-modern Europe, the history of republican political theory, the Hebrew republic, theories of property, and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. According to Diana Muir, Nelson is "one of a group of scholars engaged in the enterprise of re-evaluating the origins of modern political theory". According to Nathan Perl-Rosenthal , Nelson's Hebrew Republic "demonstrates unforgettably that we need to understand piety to comprehend politics."

Books

  • The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought, (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
  • The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, Harvard University Press (2010), which received the 2012 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies and was a Choice outstanding academic title of 2010.
  • Editor of Hobbes's translations of the Iliad and Odyssey for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes, (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2008).
  • The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding (Belknap Press, an imprint of Harvard University Press, October 2014)

    • References

    Eric M. Nelson Wikipedia
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