Johan Tralau
Biographic Data
| ID | 1088708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johan Tralau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johan |
| FAMILY NAME | Tralau |
| SIGNATURE | TRALAU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Images déconcertantes dans la poésie grecque
Images déconcertantes dans la poésie grecque
Les deux conférences sont consacrées aux images déconcertantes dans la poésie grecque – des images liées au sacrifice en tant qu’institution fondamentale de la cité hellène. Dans le cadre des conférences, une thèse de portée générale sur des métaphores déviantes a été proposée : elles nous laissent entrevoir des aberrations sociales, politiques et religieuses. Plus spécifiquement, les théories cognitives de la métaphore d’Aristote à nos jours nou…
Murder, Logic, and Embryology
In this paper, we argue that the trial scene in Aischylos’ Eumenides exhibits attempts at “internal critique,” that is, arguments refuting a thesis “from within,” for example, by identifying a logical inconsistency. Apollo, Orestes, and the Erinyes employ such techniques with varying success in three argumentative moves pertaining to murder, revenge, and kinship, thus showing and teaching the audience the art of such argument. While these techniq…
Der Ursprung der politischen Philosophie. Die Evolution normativen Denkens und die Selbstzerstörung der Vergeltungsmoral in Sophokles’ Elektra
Article Der Ursprung der politischen Philosophie. Die Evolution normativen Denkens und die Selbstzerstörung der Vergeltungsmoral in Sophokles’ Elektra was published on February 18, 2018 in the journal Antike und Abendland (volume 64, issue 1)
Hesiod, Ouranos, Kronos, and the Emasculation at the Beginning of Time
In this article, it is argued that Kronos’ emasculation of Ouranos in Hesiod’s Theogony is depicted as the genesis of the seasons and years. Hesiod insistently speaks of “afterwards” in the context of the emasculation, suggesting that this “afterwards” is brought about by the deed. Moreover, Hesiod depicts the seed as the beginning of agriculture, fertility, change, justice, and the future. Furthermore, expressions designating duration and changi…
Hobbes’s hidden monster
In recent years, much work has been done on the role of images in Hobbes. But there is an unsolved riddle with regard to the famous frontispiece of Leviathan (1651). Why is there nothing monstrous in the sovereign body depicted, despite the fact that it is named for a Biblical sea monster? In this article it is argued that there is a monster just barely hidden in the image and that the iconographical tradition helps us rediscover this creature. W…
Deception, politics and aesthetics
Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt
Incest and Liberal Neutrality
Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt
1. Introduction: Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and Three Conceptions of Politics Johan Tralau 2. Schmitt's Behemoth Toma Mastnak 3. Hobbes and Schmitt on the Name and Nature of Leviathan Revisited Patricia Springborg 4. Re-Imagining Leviathan: Schmitt and Oakeshott on Hobbes and the Problem of Political Order Jan-Werner Muller 5. Hobbes's Paradox Redux Roberto Farneti 6. The Liberal Slip of Thomas Hobbes's Authoritarian Pen Gabriella Slomp 7. Does…
Hobbes contra Liberty of Conscience
It has often been argued that, notwithstanding his commitment to the authoritarian state, Thomas Hobbes is a champion of the “minimal” version of liberty of conscience: namely, the freedom of citizens to think whatever they like as long as they obey the law. Such an interpretation renders Hobbes’s philosophy more palatable to contemporary society. Yet the claim is incorrect. Alongside his notion of “private” conscience, namely, Hobbes develops a …
Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and three conceptions of politics
In this introduction, the author argues that Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt can help us rediscover the foundations of politics and political thought. In the years since World War II, the prevailing paradigm of politics has largely centred on the redistribution of resources. Hobbes and Schmitt, by contrast, help us appreciate two other conceptions of politics. Firstly, these thinkers averred that it is the problem of order – not redistribution – w…
Order, the ocean, and Satan
Schmitt’s book on Hobbes’s Leviathan, published in 1938, has attracted much interest among scholars. Yet few have addressed the enigmatic vagueness and ambiguity of his interpretation of the monster Leviathan. In this essay it is argued that there was a political reason for this ambiguity. Schmitt used the image of the Leviathan as a kind of mirror of his relationship to the National Socialist state; in so doing, he made the image as ambiguous as…
The Effaced Self in the Utopia of the Young Karl Marx
This article attempts to present a reconstructive interpretation of the utopian self as portrayed in the writings of the young Marx. The main currents of interpretation claim that utopian society enhances individual liberty. However, the argument of this article is that Marx’s utopia entails the opposite, namely, the dissolution of the self. If human alienation in relation to nature is to be overcome, then the difference between man and nature mu…
Hobbes contra Liberty of Conscience
It has often been argued that, notwithstanding his commitment to the authoritarian state, Thomas Hobbes is a champion of the “minimal” version of liberty of conscience: namely, the freedom of citizens to think whatever they like as long as they obey the law. Such an interpretation renders Hobbes’s philosophy more palatable to contemporary society. Yet the claim is incorrect. Alongside his notion of “private” conscience, namely, Hobbes develops a …
Hobbes’s hidden monster
In recent years, much work has been done on the role of images in Hobbes. But there is an unsolved riddle with regard to the famous frontispiece of Leviathan (1651). Why is there nothing monstrous in the sovereign body depicted, despite the fact that it is named for a Biblical sea monster? In this article it is argued that there is a monster just barely hidden in the image and that the iconographical tradition helps us rediscover this creature. W…
Deception, politics and aesthetics
Incest and Liberal Neutrality
Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and three conceptions of politics
In this introduction, the author argues that Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt can help us rediscover the foundations of politics and political thought. In the years since World War II, the prevailing paradigm of politics has largely centred on the redistribution of resources. Hobbes and Schmitt, by contrast, help us appreciate two other conceptions of politics. Firstly, these thinkers averred that it is the problem of order – not redistribution – w…
The Effaced Self in the Utopia of the Young Karl Marx
This article attempts to present a reconstructive interpretation of the utopian self as portrayed in the writings of the young Marx. The main currents of interpretation claim that utopian society enhances individual liberty. However, the argument of this article is that Marx’s utopia entails the opposite, namely, the dissolution of the self. If human alienation in relation to nature is to be overcome, then the difference between man and nature mu…
Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and three conceptions of politics
In this introduction, the author argues that Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt can help us rediscover the foundations of politics and political thought. In the years since World War II, the prevailing paradigm of politics has largely centred on the redistribution of resources. Hobbes and Schmitt, by contrast, help us appreciate two other conceptions of politics. Firstly, these thinkers averred that it is the problem of order – not redistribution – w…
Order, the ocean, and Satan
Schmitt’s book on Hobbes’s Leviathan, published in 1938, has attracted much interest among scholars. Yet few have addressed the enigmatic vagueness and ambiguity of his interpretation of the monster Leviathan. In this essay it is argued that there was a political reason for this ambiguity. Schmitt used the image of the Leviathan as a kind of mirror of his relationship to the National Socialist state; in so doing, he made the image as ambiguous as…
Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt
1. Introduction: Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and Three Conceptions of Politics Johan Tralau 2. Schmitt's Behemoth Toma Mastnak 3. Hobbes and Schmitt on the Name and Nature of Leviathan Revisited Patricia Springborg 4. Re-Imagining Leviathan: Schmitt and Oakeshott on Hobbes and the Problem of Political Order Jan-Werner Muller 5. Hobbes's Paradox Redux Roberto Farneti 6. The Liberal Slip of Thomas Hobbes's Authoritarian Pen Gabriella Slomp 7. Does…
Hobbes contra Liberty of Conscience
It has often been argued that, notwithstanding his commitment to the authoritarian state, Thomas Hobbes is a champion of the “minimal” version of liberty of conscience: namely, the freedom of citizens to think whatever they like as long as they obey the law. Such an interpretation renders Hobbes’s philosophy more palatable to contemporary society. Yet the claim is incorrect. Alongside his notion of “private” conscience, namely, Hobbes develops a …
Incest and Liberal Neutrality
Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt
Hobbes’s hidden monster
In recent years, much work has been done on the role of images in Hobbes. But there is an unsolved riddle with regard to the famous frontispiece of Leviathan (1651). Why is there nothing monstrous in the sovereign body depicted, despite the fact that it is named for a Biblical sea monster? In this article it is argued that there is a monster just barely hidden in the image and that the iconographical tradition helps us rediscover this creature. W…
Deception, politics and aesthetics
Der Ursprung der politischen Philosophie. Die Evolution normativen Denkens und die Selbstzerstörung der Vergeltungsmoral in Sophokles’ Elektra
Article Der Ursprung der politischen Philosophie. Die Evolution normativen Denkens und die Selbstzerstörung der Vergeltungsmoral in Sophokles’ Elektra was published on February 18, 2018 in the journal Antike und Abendland (volume 64, issue 1)
Hesiod, Ouranos, Kronos, and the Emasculation at the Beginning of Time
In this article, it is argued that Kronos’ emasculation of Ouranos in Hesiod’s Theogony is depicted as the genesis of the seasons and years. Hesiod insistently speaks of “afterwards” in the context of the emasculation, suggesting that this “afterwards” is brought about by the deed. Moreover, Hesiod depicts the seed as the beginning of agriculture, fertility, change, justice, and the future. Furthermore, expressions designating duration and changi…
Murder, Logic, and Embryology
In this paper, we argue that the trial scene in Aischylos’ Eumenides exhibits attempts at “internal critique,” that is, arguments refuting a thesis “from within,” for example, by identifying a logical inconsistency. Apollo, Orestes, and the Erinyes employ such techniques with varying success in three argumentative moves pertaining to murder, revenge, and kinship, thus showing and teaching the audience the art of such argument. While these techniq…
Images déconcertantes dans la poésie grecque
Les deux conférences sont consacrées aux images déconcertantes dans la poésie grecque – des images liées au sacrifice en tant qu’institution fondamentale de la cité hellène. Dans le cadre des conférences, une thèse de portée générale sur des métaphores déviantes a été proposée : elles nous laissent entrevoir des aberrations sociales, politiques et religieuses. Plus spécifiquement, les théories cognitives de la métaphore d’Aristote à nos jours nou…
Images déconcertantes dans la poésie grecque
Philosophy (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (7 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (6 works) · Art (4 works)