Allan M Hillani
Biographic Data
| ID | 1465617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan M Hillani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hillani |
| SIGNATURE | HILLANI A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | New School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5105-0425 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hobbes is Not Who We Think He Is
This contribution to a symposium on Samantha Frost’s Lessons From a Materialist Thinker discusses its groundbreaking approach to Hobbes’s thought and raises two questions that are still to be answered by future scholars: what does a materialist politics or a materialist ethics look like, and how can we understand juridical relations from a materialist standpoint
Hobbes Among the Savages
In this article I argue that Thomas Hobbes’s theory of the “state of nature” should be understood as describing a thoroughly political situation. Hobbes’s exemplification of the state of nature by resorting to the “savages” of America should be taken in its ultimately paradoxical character, one that puts in question the stark opposition between a prepolitical natural state and the properly political state resulting from the “social contract.” Thr…
Myth and authority
This essay proposes an interpretation of the relationship between law, violence, and justice based on Walter Benjamin’s work ‘Critique of Violence.’ I argue that, in the essay, the three terms are sustained by an underlying notion of authority, which, according to Benjamin, has a mythical character. This is shown by an interpretation of how law’s authority is linked to its mythical foundation. Then, by analysing Western mythology and how the noti…
Os Usos De Agamben Em Tempos De Pandemia
O presente trabalho realiza uma análise do papel paradoxal cumprido pelos escritos do filósofo Giorgio Agamben na pandemia do coronavírus. Com diversas intervenções minimizando a gravidade da pandemia e criticando as medidas sanitárias adotadas pelo governo italiano, Agamben se tornou objeto constante de crítica. Apesar de sua postura pessoal, contudo, o presente trabalho busca mostrar a utilidade da filosofia de Agamben para entender o nosso con…
The ideology of Human Rights
In the rights Declarations of the 18th Century, rights are defined as universal and not linked to social status. They are taken to be "self-evident" truths, not an aspiration or a political aim, and everyone is already born with them, regardless of State recognition. However, the aftermath of the liberal revolutions and the history of the following centuries did not cease to contest this claim. In the present paper, my aim is not to present a def…
Os Usos De Agamben Em Tempos De Pandemia
O presente trabalho realiza uma análise do papel paradoxal cumprido pelos escritos do filósofo Giorgio Agamben na pandemia do coronavírus. Com diversas intervenções minimizando a gravidade da pandemia e criticando as medidas sanitárias adotadas pelo governo italiano, Agamben se tornou objeto constante de crítica. Apesar de sua postura pessoal, contudo, o presente trabalho busca mostrar a utilidade da filosofia de Agamben para entender o nosso con…
The ideology of Human Rights
In the rights Declarations of the 18th Century, rights are defined as universal and not linked to social status. They are taken to be "self-evident" truths, not an aspiration or a political aim, and everyone is already born with them, regardless of State recognition. However, the aftermath of the liberal revolutions and the history of the following centuries did not cease to contest this claim. In the present paper, my aim is not to present a def…
Os Usos De Agamben Em Tempos De Pandemia
O presente trabalho realiza uma análise do papel paradoxal cumprido pelos escritos do filósofo Giorgio Agamben na pandemia do coronavírus. Com diversas intervenções minimizando a gravidade da pandemia e criticando as medidas sanitárias adotadas pelo governo italiano, Agamben se tornou objeto constante de crítica. Apesar de sua postura pessoal, contudo, o presente trabalho busca mostrar a utilidade da filosofia de Agamben para entender o nosso con…
Hobbes Among the Savages
In this article I argue that Thomas Hobbes’s theory of the “state of nature” should be understood as describing a thoroughly political situation. Hobbes’s exemplification of the state of nature by resorting to the “savages” of America should be taken in its ultimately paradoxical character, one that puts in question the stark opposition between a prepolitical natural state and the properly political state resulting from the “social contract.” Thr…
Myth and authority
This essay proposes an interpretation of the relationship between law, violence, and justice based on Walter Benjamin’s work ‘Critique of Violence.’ I argue that, in the essay, the three terms are sustained by an underlying notion of authority, which, according to Benjamin, has a mythical character. This is shown by an interpretation of how law’s authority is linked to its mythical foundation. Then, by analysing Western mythology and how the noti…
Hobbes is Not Who We Think He Is
This contribution to a symposium on Samantha Frost’s Lessons From a Materialist Thinker discusses its groundbreaking approach to Hobbes’s thought and raises two questions that are still to be answered by future scholars: what does a materialist politics or a materialist ethics look like, and how can we understand juridical relations from a materialist standpoint
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Law in Society and Culture (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works)