George Wright Publications

Forthcoming:

“Martin Heidegger and the Place of the Body,” Rodopi Press.

Leibniz on Election and Predestination, co-translator with Michael Murray, Yale University

Press.

“What is Lutheran in ‘Hobbes’s Calvinism’,” conference papers, “Calvin and Hobbes”

Conference; Faculté Libre de Théologie Protestante; Paris, 2009.

“Religion et Politique dans le Leviathan de Thomas Hobbes,” article for French companion

volume to Leviathan, translated by Nicolas Dubos.

In Progress:

Sexual Politics and the Supreme Court: Romer v. Evans in Theoretical Perspective.

The Latin Leviathan in English.

Hobbes’s Theological Development, 1640-1651.

“Biblical Typology in Hobbes’s Leviathan.”

“Che Fece il Gran Sbaglio: Thomas Hobbes and Quentin Skinner.”

“Patavinitas Nostra, or Not Your Grandfather’s Hobbes,” review of Dominique Weber, Hobbes

et le corps de Dieu: Idem esse ens et corpus (Paris: Vrin, 2009), and of Agostino Lupoli, Nei

limiti della materia Hobbes e Boyle: Materialismo epistemologico, filosofia corpuscolare e dio

corporeo (Milan: Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 2006), for the British Journal of the History of

Philosophy.

Review of Thomas Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan: Building States and Regimes in the Medieval

and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), and of The History

of Political Thought in National Context ed. by Dario Castiglione and Iain Hampshire

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), for the British Journal of the History of

Philosophy.

Review of A. P. Martinich, Thomas Hobbes (New York, NY: Routledge, 2005), for the British

Journal for the History of Philosophy.

Books:

Religion, Politics and Thomas Hobbes, Archives internationales d’histoire des idées Series Sarah

Hutton, Director (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006).

Nuove prospettive critiche sul Leviatano di Hobbes nel 350° anniversario di pubblicazione (New

Critical Perspectives on Hobbes’s Leviathan upon the 350th Anniversary of its Publication), co-

editor with Luc Foisneau; Rivista di storia della filosofia 60 (2004), and published separately in

Europe, Collana di filosofia (Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2004).

The Legal Studies Reader: A Conversation and Readings about Law, co-editor with Maria Cuzzo

(New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2004).

Articles:

“Tuck's Grotius: De Iure Praedae in Context,” 26-28 Grotiana (2008): 366-378.

“The 1668 Appendix and Hobbes’s Theological Project,” Cambridge Companion to Leviathan,

ed. by Patricia Springborg (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

“Caesar Augustus in Vico’s Scienza Nuova: Monarchy as Remedy for Democracy,”

Monarchisms in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Conference (Toronto: University of

Toronto Press, 2007), pp. 121-43.

“Authority and Theodicy in Hobbes’s Leviathan: ‘We are God’s Slaves’,” Rivista di storia della

filosofia 60 (2004): 175-204.

“Curley and Martinich in Dubious Battle,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (2002): 461-

76.

“Hobbes and the Economic Trinity,” British Journal for the History of

Philosophy 7 (1999): 397-428.

“Martinich e Curley: Una incerta disputa,” Rivista di storia della filosofia, 55 (1999): 73-81.

“Hobbes e la trinità economica,” Rivista di storia della filosofia 54 (1998): 655-680.

“Paul Tillich et l’Exil,” “Raison et Émigration,” Cahiers de Philosophie de l’Université de Caen

30 (1996): 329-76.

“Hobbes’s 1668 Latin Appendix to Leviathan,” Interpretation 35 (1991): 323-413.

“On a General Theory of Interpretation: The Betti-Gadamer Dispute in Legal Hermeneutics,”

The American Journal of Jurisprudence 45 (1987): 191-243.

Emilio Betti, “On a General Theory of Interpretation: The Raison d’être of Hermeneutics,” trans.

by George Wright American Journal of Jurisprudence 45 (1987): 245-68 (reprinted, 2007, in

Gadamer and Law, ed. by Francis J. Mootz III, Philosophers and Law Series, Gateway).

“Stoic Midwives at the Birth of Jurisprudence,” The American Journal of Jurisprudence 38

(1983): 169-87.

Reviews:

Roberto Farneti’s Il canone moderno: Filosofia politica e geneologia (Turin: Bollati Boringhieri,

2002), Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (2008): 145-47.

Cees Leijenhorst’s The Mechanisation of Aristotle: The Late Aristotelian Setting of Thomas

Hobbes’s Natural Philosophy (Leiden: Brill, 2002), Journal of the History of Philosophy, 42

(2004): 101-03.

John Christian Laursen’s Religious Toleration: ‘The Variety of Rites’ from Cyrus to Defoe (New

York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), British Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (2002):

155-58.

Luc Foisneau’s Hobbes et la toute-puissance de Dieu (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France,

2000), Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (2001): 589-90.

The Columbia History of Western Philosophy, ed. by Richard Popkin (New York, NY: Columbia

University Press, 1999), Archiv für die Geschichte der Philosophie 83 (2001): 329-333.

PAPERS AND CONFERENCES

Organizer, “Law Day, 2010: Forum on Cases before the Wisconsin Supreme Court with Chief

Justice Shirley Abrahamson;” Center for Citizenship; UW-Superior, April 30, 2010

Presenter, “What is Lutheran in ‘Hobbes’s Calvinism’,” “Calvin and Hobbes” Conference;

Faculté Libre de Théologie Protestante; Paris, December 14-16, 2009.

Presenter, “Biblical Typology in Hobbes’s Leviathan,” Hebraic Political Studies Conference;

Shalem Center; Jerusalem, Israel, December 26-29, 2006.

Organizer, Constitution Day Address and Forum; “Wisconsin’s Marriage Protection

Amendment;” with Dale Carpenter, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School;

Center for Citizenship; UW-Superior, September 18, 2006

Presenter, “Tuck’s Grotius: De Iure Praedae in Context;” Piracy, Property, Punishment -Hugo

Grotius and De Iure Praedae Conference; Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Royal

Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Wassenaar, the Netherlands; June 8, 2005

Presenter, “Tuck on Grotius on Subjective Right;” Grotius Study Group, NIAS; Wassenaar, the

Netherlands; November 18-December 2, 2004

Presenter, “Queer Heidegger;” Western Division, American Philosophical Association,

Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons in the Profession,; Pasadena,

CA; March 26, 2004

Commentator, “The Right of Nature in Hobbes” presented by Prof. Bernard Gert; International

Hobbes Association; Western Division, APA; Pasadena, CA; March 26, 2004

Presenter, “Heidegger and Derrida;” Eastern Division, APA, Committee on Lesbian, Gay,

Bisexual, and Transgender Persons in the Profession; Washington, DC; December 27, 2003

Presenter, “Was Colorado’s Amendment 2 Anti-Gay?;” Law and Society Association Meeting;

Pittsburgh, PA; June 5-8, 2003

Presenter, “Romer v. Evans in Theoretical Perspective;” Political Theory Colloquium,

Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN; April 25, 2003

Presenter, “Public Reason and Superstition: Rawls, Hegel and Hobbes;” Society for Systematic

Philosophy; Eastern Division, APA; Philadelphia, PA; December 28, 2002

Presenter, “Caesar Augustus in Vico’s Scienza Nuova: Monarchy as Remedy for Democracy;”

Monarchists and Monarchisms in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Conference; UCLA;

Los Angeles, CA; November 15-16, 2002

Panelist, “Developing Legal Studies Curricula,” and participant, Closing Panel; Midwest Law

and Society Retreat; UW-Madison; Madison, WI; September 27-29, 2002

Presenter, “Theodicy and Authority in the Leviathan of Hobbes: ‘We are God’s Slaves’;”

Hobbes et la question de l’autorité dans le Léviathan Conference, CNRS and Centre Thomas

Hobbes; the Sorbonne; Paris; December 15, 2001

Presenter, “Heidegger and Derrida;” Globalicities: A Conference on Issues Related to

Globalization; Comparative Literature Program, Michigan State University; East Lansing, MI;

October 19, 2001

Presenter, “Return of the Exile: The Impact of Continental Thought and Experience upon the

Writing of Leviathan;” Britain in Europe and the Wider World, Ninth International Conference;

Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies, University of Durham; Durham, England; July 18, 2001

Presenter, Plenary Session, “Hobbes in Exile;” Britons Abroad, Strangers at Home Conference;

Committee for Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Thought, Cambridge University; Cambridge,

England; January 15, 2001

Panel Chair, “Rousseau in the Logic of Hegel;” Hegel Society of America; Fordham University;

New York, NY; October 12, 2000

Presenter, “The Haunting of Thomas Hobbes;” Athens and Jerusalem Con-ference, British

Society for the History of Philosophy; Keele University; Stoke on Trent, England; April 4, 2000

Chair and Presenter, “The ‘Christian Commonwealth’ in Hobbes and Hegel;” American Political

Science Association; Atlanta, GA; September 2, 1999

Presenter, “Hybridizing Roman Law: Savigny and Legislation;” Comparative Literacy

Conference; Department of Comparative Literature and Border Studies Research Circle; UW-

Madison; Madison, WI; March 25, 1999

Commentator, “Hegel’s Family Values” presented by Prof. Edward Halper, Society for

Systematic Philosophy; Eastern Division, APA; Washington, DC; December 28, 1998

Participant, Workshop on Undergraduate and Graduate Education in Law and Society, Law and

Society Association; Aspen, CO; June 3, 1998

Presenter, “Hobbes as Intepreter of Aristotle;” Pillenger Lecture; Department of Classics; UW-

Madison; April 23, 1998

Organizer, “Law Day ‘98, Issues of Tribal Sovereignty;” with the Honorable Barbara Crabb,

Judge, U. S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin, and David Wilkins, University of

Arizona; Legal Studies Program; UW-Superior; May 1-2, 1998

Organizer, “Law Day ‘97, Women and the Law;” with the Honorable Janine Geske, Associate

Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court; the Honorable Esther Tomljanovich and Sandra Gardebring,

Associate Justices, Minnesota Supreme Court; UW-Superior; April 30-May 2, 1997

Organizer, “Law Day ‘96, Court/Community Relations;” with the Honorable Shirley

Abrahamson, Chief Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court; the Honorable A. M. “Sandy” Keith,

Chief Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court, and Prof. Marc Galanter, UW School of Law; UW-

Superior; May 1-4, 1996