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Samuel Garrett Zeitlin is a Lecturer in Modern Intellectual History at 果冻影院.听
Sam studies and teaches the history of political thought, the history of international relations, political philosophy, and intellectual history. His work on Francis Bacon examines the themes of war and peace in Bacon鈥檚 political philosophy. His work on Carl Schmitt has offered new interpretations of Schmitt on history, law and state theory. Sam鈥檚 translation and edition (co-edited with R.A. Berman) of Land and Sea won an award in the "Religion" category at the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2016. 听
Before joining the 果冻影院 History faculty, he taught courses at University of California-Berkeley, at the University of Chicago, at Queen Mary, University of London, at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universit盲t in Erlangen, and at the University of Cambridge, where Sam was a College Lecturer and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.
Major publications
鈥淓utopia of Empire: Francis Bacon鈥檚 Short View and the Imperial and Colonial Background to the New Atlantis,鈥� Political Research Quarterly 76:2 (June 2023), pp. 1012-1023.
(translator), Raymond Aron, Liberty and Equality (Princeton University Press, 2023).
(with Lars Vinx), Carl Schmitt's Early Legal-Theoretical Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
鈥淚ndirection and the Rhetoric of Tyranny: Carl Schmitt鈥檚 The Tyranny of Values 1960-1967,鈥� Modern Intellectual History 18:2 (June 2021), pp. 427-450.
鈥淔rancis Bacon on Peace and the 1604 Treaty of London,鈥� History of Political Thought 41:3 (2020), pp. 487-504.
