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Thomas Berns is Professor of Political Philosophy and Philosophy of the Renaissance at the University of Brussels and the head of the Department of Philosophy. He is currently working about the new forms of normativity and the question of war in philosophy.

Thomas Berns

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Paul E. Rahe is Professor of History and Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage at Hillsdale College.  He teaches Greek and Roman history, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato’s Republic and Laws, and Aristotle’s Politics to Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Locke, Mandeville, Shaftesbury, Montesquieu, Hume, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, the American Revolution, the American Constitutional Convention, The Federalist, Rousseau, and Tocqueville. 

Paul Rahe

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Victoria Kahn teaches courses on Milton, seventeenth-century English literature, and the history of literary theory at University of California, Berkeley. For Comparative Literature, she teaches courses on the continental Renaissance and literary theory, including The History and Theory of Mimesis,  Idols and Ideology, and Tragedy and Trauerspiel. 

Victoria Kahn

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Doyeeta Majumder completed her first two degrees from Jadavpur University and her PhD from the University of St Andrews. Having taught at the University of Edinburgh, and then at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, she is now an Assistant Professor of English Literature at her alma mater--Jadavpur University. Her research interests include early modern law and literature, political and juridical theory, intellectual history. She has translated  Il principe from Italian to Bengali.

Doyeeta Majumder

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Swapan Kumar Chakravorty is the first Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore
Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Presidency University,
Kolkata. He has served as Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Director General of the National Library of IndiaKolkata, and Secretary and Curator of Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata. He has also contributed significantly to the field of book history and early modern literature and culture.

Swapan Chakravorty

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Erica Benner is a political philosopher based in Berlin. She has three books on Machiavelli: Machiavelli’s Ethics (Princeton 2009), Machiavelli’s Prince: A New Reading (Oxford 2013), and Be Like the Fox (Penguin and Norton, 2017). She also writes widely about the ethics of nationalism. Her Really Existing Nationalisms: A Post-Communist View from Marx and Engels (Oxford 1995) was recently reissued in paperback (Verso 2018).

Erica Benner

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Jean-Louis Fournel  is Professor at Paris University (Histoire et Culture de la Renaissance italienne)  and Senior Member of Institut Universitaire de France). He is fellow of the Laboratoire d’études romanes Paris University  He has written numerous  articles on Italian Political Thought of Renaissance, History of Italian Republics and History of Rhetoric and Translation studies.

Jean Louis Fournel

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Shirshendu Chakrabarti is formerly Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi. He was Tagore Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla (2012-13). His works include Towards an Ethics and Aesthetics of the Future: Rabindranath Tagore 1930-41. IIAS, Shimla, 2009 and Word, Image, Text: Studies in Literary and Visual Culture. edt. Shormishtha Panja, Shirshendu Chakrabarti and Christel R. Devadawson. Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2009. He has published three volumes of poetry in Bangla from Ananda Publishers, Kolkata.

Shirshendu Chakrabarti

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Rajeev Bhargava is senior fellow and former director of Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi; honorary fellow, Balliol College, Oxford and professorial fellow, Institute of Social justice, ACU, Sydney. 

Rajeev Bhargava

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Yves Winter is Assistant Professor of Political Science at McGill University. He is the author of Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Yves Winter

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Sukanta Chaudhuri is Emeritus Professor of English at Jadavpur University. His research interests are the European Renaissance, textual studies and digital humanities. Among his latest books are The Metaphysics of Text (Cambridge, 2010), Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance (2 vols., Manchester, 2016-18), and the Third Arden edition of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is general editor of the Jadavpur Italian-Bengali translation series, for which he has translated from Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks and annotated Dante’s Inferno. He has translated widely from Bengali, and was chief co-ordinator of Bichitra, the online Tagore variorum. 

Sukanta Chaudhuri

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William Connell is Professor and La Motta Chair at Seton Hall University. He studies a wide range of problems in Italian and Italian American History, and European history in general, with particular concentrations in medieval and Renaissance intellectual history, humanism, social history and statebuilding. 

William Connell

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Marcello Simonetta is a historian based in Paris, where he teaches political theory. He is now a Senior Research Fellow at the Medici Archive Project. His interests are in the political and diplomatic history of late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Italy. He has authored several books, among which “Rinascimento segreto. Il mondo del Segretario da Petrarca a Machiavelli” (FrancoAngeli, Milan: 2004), “The Montefeltro Conspiracy” (Doubleday, New York: 2007, translated in four languages) and “Volpi e Leoni. I Medici, Machiavelli e la rovina d’Italia” (Bompiani, Milan: 2014). 

Marcello Simonetta

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Catherine H. Zuckert is Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science, Emerita, at the University of Notre Dame. She has previously served as Editor-in-Chief of The Review of Politics from 2003-2018. Her works include Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of Dialogues (2009) and Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy with Michael P. Zuckert (2014).

Catherine Zuckert

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Vittorio Morfino is associate professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Milan-Bicocca, director of the master in Critical Theory of the Society, and is Directeur de Programme at the Collège international de philosohie. He has been visiting professor at the Universidade de São Paulo, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne and the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba. He is the author of Il tempo e l’occasione. L’incontro Spinoza Machiavelli (Milano, 2002, Paris, 2012), Incursioni spinoziste (Milano, 2002), Il tempo della moltitudine (Roma, 2005, Paris, 2010, Madrid, 2013, Santiago, 2015), Plural Temporality. Transindividuality and the Aleatory between Spinoza and Althusser (Leiden, 2014) e Genealogia di un pregiudizio. L’immagine di Spinoza in Germania da Leibniz a Marx (Hildesheim 2016) He is an editor of "Quaderni materialisti" and "Décalages. An Althusserian Journal».

Vittorio Morfino

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Prasanta Chakravarty is Associate Professor at the Department of English, University of Delhi. His research interests encompass Early Modern Literature and Culture, Literature and Political Thought, Poetry and Poetics & Literary Theory.

Prasanta Chakravarty

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Rinku Lamba teaches political theory at the Centre for Political Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University.  Her areas of interest include Political Theory, Secularism and Multiculturism, Western Political Thought, Modern Indian Political Thought, Subaltern Studies, Politics and Planning in Third World Cities.

Rinku Lamba

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Alessandro Bordin

Alessandro Bordin

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Enrico Arman

Enrico Arman

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Koushik Sarkar

Koushik Sarkar

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