Bodies and the Body Politic in Modern Political Thought

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Four papers on bodies and creating the body politic in the 17th and 18th centuries

Sub Unit

• Division 1: Political Thought and Philosophy

Individual Presentations

• Glory in the Mortal God: The Union of Transcendent & Bodily Interests in Hobbes - Vertika Vertika, McGill University

• Locke and The Origins of Fiduciary Governance - Madalyn Hay, University of Toronto

• Tacit Tactics: A Strategic Reading of Consent in Locke's Second Treatise - Derek Kennedy, University of Pennsylvania

• 'That Curious Freak’: Democratic Possibilities of ‘Person’ - Char Roone Miller, George Mason University

Chair

• Amy Gais Washington University in St. Louis

Discussant

• Kaarish K. Maniar Columbia University