arash abizadeh

​I specialize in contemporary political theory, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy. I received a BA(Hon) from the University of Winnipeg in 1992, an MPhil from Oxford University in 1994, and a PhD from Harvard University in 2001.

 

My research has focussed on democratic theory; democracy's relation to identity, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism; immigration and border control; social and political power; the role of passion, rhetoric, and discourse in politics; and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy, particularly Hobbes and Rousseau.

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My book Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics has been recently published by Cambridge University Press. My ongoing research includes a project on social and political power; a book on democratic theory; and a book on Hobbes's accounts of language, natural science, and moral and political philosophy, titled The Oscillations of Thomas Hobbes: Between Insight and the Will.​