Publications
Books
Books
- Carl Schmitt’s State and Constitutional Theory: A Critical Analysis. (Oxford University Press, 2017).
- Morgenthau mal compris: The Philosophical Roots of Hans Morgenthau’s Political Realism. (VDM Publishing, 2011).
- “Hans Kelsen’s Political Theology: Science, Pantheism, and Democracy.” Special Section on “Kelsen, Politics, and Realism” (For the centennial of the Austrian Constitution). Austrian Journal for Political Science 2021. Forthcoming.
- “Constraining Political Extremism and Legal Revolution” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2020, Vol. 46(3), 249-273.
- “Thoughtlessness & Resentment: Determinism and Moral Responsibility in the Case of Adolf Eichmann” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2014, 40(2), 127–144.
- "A Pessimism of Strength? Tragedy and Political Virtue" in Tragedy and International Relations. ed. Toni Erskine and Richard Ned Lebow. “(New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012), 129-143.
- “Liberalism, Legal Revolution, and Carl Schmitt.” (Symposium on Scheuerman’s The End of Law.) Philosophy and Social Criticism. 2021. Vol. 47(2) 163–167.
- “Emergency Powers and Trump: Lessons from Carl Schmitt” Public Seminar. March 22, 2019.
- “Political Extremism and Liberal Democracy” H-DIPLO. Policy Series. July 25, 2018.
- “Carl Schmitt and Democratic Cannibalism.” 3:AM Magazine. (3:AM philosophy interviews have moved to 3:16) Interview by Richard Marshall. June 16, 2018.
- “Responding to the Rise of Extremist Populism.” OUPblog. Oxford University Press. February 5, 2018.
- Review of Conceptualizing Politics: An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Furio Cerutti. (New York: Routledge, 2017). Philosophy and Social Criticism. 2019, Vol. 45(8), 948-958.
- Review of The Remnants of the Rechtsstaat: An Ethnography of Nazi Law. Jens Meierhenrich. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Perspectives on Politics. 2019. Vol. 17 (1), 223-225.
- Review of Power, Knowledge, and Dissent in Morgenthau’s Worldview. Felix Rösch. (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015). European Review of International Studies. 2017. Vol 4(2-3), 122-126.
- Review of Carl Schmitt: A Biography. By Reinhard Mehring (Malden, MA: Polity, 2014). Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. 2016. Vol. 23(2), 320-321.
Public Engagement
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Working Papers
- Off the Political Agenda”: Liberalism Constitutionalism and Democracy
- Hans Kelsen: Democratic Political Theologian?
- Schmitt, Hobbes, and a “Realist” Justification of State Authority
- Thought and Freedom in an Age of Third Screens and 5G: Arendt
- “Quis Judicabit?” Kelsen and Schmitt on Democracy, Authority, and Political Theology
Research Interests
Liberalism, Democracy, Militant Democracy, Constitutionalism, State Theory, Populism, Liberty, Thoughtlessness, History of Political Thought. I am particularly interested in continental political and legal thought from the last century, particularly the work of Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen.
Liberalism, Democracy, Militant Democracy, Constitutionalism, State Theory, Populism, Liberty, Thoughtlessness, History of Political Thought. I am particularly interested in continental political and legal thought from the last century, particularly the work of Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen.