Samuel Garrett Zeitlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4247341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Garrett Zeitlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel Garrett |
| FAMILY NAME | Zeitlin |
| SIGNATURE | ZEITLIN S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9794-6860 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sociopolitical Geographies: A Comment on Georgios Varouxakis's The West
At the outset, heartfelt congratulations to Professor Varouxakis on The West. Georgios Varouxakis's The West is an admirably learned, engaging, and valuable work, and it is a pleasure to comment on...
Dark Places: Crime and Politics in the Personal Noir of James Ellroy
Freedom, Intentionality and the Classic: A Comment on Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence
If It’s a Lie, It Must Be Important: An Interview with Anne Norton on Identity, Property, and the Study of Politics
The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation
Liberty and Equality
Eutopia of Empire: Francis Bacon’s Short View and the Imperial and Colonial Background to the New Atlantis
The present article considers Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis against the backdrop of Bacon’s Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain, one of Bacon’s least studied and most imperially audacious and bellicose texts. In the Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain, Bacon argues for a naval war and blockade of both the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish colonies in the Americas, advocating the British seizure of the latter. The article ar…
Carl Schmitt's Early Legal-Theoretical Writings: Statute and Judgment and the Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual
Many of Carl Schmitt's major works have by now been translated, with two notable exceptions: Schmitt's two early monographs Statute and Judgment (first published in 1912) and The Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual (first published in 1914). In these two works Schmitt presents a theory of adjudication as well as an account of the state's role in the realization of the rule of law, which together form the theoretical basis on…
Francis Bacon on religious warfare
For Francis Bacon (1561–1626), toleration is an end-state goal. In his New Atlantis, Christians and Jews alike live peaceably together as they did not in the England of his time, from which Jews were banned. Yet, for Bacon, toleration was not always, in the first instance, regarded as the means for its own attainment. The present article situates Bacon's utterances on religious warfare within four contexts: the writings of Richard Knolles, Giovan…
Rawlsian Jurisprudence and the Limits of Democracy
The present article analyses John Rawls’s advocacy of judicial review via a close reading of Rawls’s discussions of his “principles of paternalism” and his “four-stage sequence” in A Theory of Justice (1971). The article surveys Rawls’s political “principles of paternalism,” the limits, checks, and constraints he imposes on majority rule and civic participation, and finally the role Rawls assigns to courts, judges, and judicial review within his …
The Heat of a Feaver’: Francis Bacon on civil war, sedition, and rebellion
This article contrasts Francis Bacon’s (1561–1626) understanding of civil war, sedition, and rebellion with that of his near contemporaries and predecessors, especially Montaigne, Bodin, Machiavelli, Alberico Gentili and Edward Forset. The article contends that for Bacon, civil war, sedition, and rebellion are the antitheses of good government and that which prudent policy aims to avoid. The article further argues that for Bacon as sedition and i…
Francis Bacon on Imperial and Colonial Warfare
This article offers a textual and historical reconstruction of Francis Bacon's thought on imperial and colonial warfare. Bacon holds that conquest, acquisition of peoples and territory through force, followed by subjugation, confers a legal right and title. Imperial expansion is justified both by arguments concerning the interstate balance of power and by arguments related to internal order and stability. On Bacon's view, a successful state must …
Indirection and the Rhetoric of Tyranny: Carl Schmitt's The Tyranny of Values 1960–1967
This article situates Carl Schmitt's The Tyranny of Values (1960/1967/1979) within the context of Schmitt's 1940s and 1950s op-ed campaign for full amnesty for Nazi war criminals as well as the context of the Veit Harlan trials and the 1958 Lüth judgment of the German Constitutional Court. The article further examines the revisions to Schmitt's 1967 version of the text in the light of Karl Löwith's criticisms of Schmitt in an article in the Frank…
Interpretation and Critique: Jacob Taubes, Julien Freund, and the Interpretation of Hobbes
Anniversaries, birthdays, and jubilees, even those celebrating long-dead poets and philosophers, were not without significance in the public culture of twentieth-century Europe.Such celebrations, in the form of conferences, lectures, and broadsheet tributes on the pages of the feuilleton or culture pages of newspapers took their place in the rites and rituals, as well as debates and contestations, of the life of both intellectual engagement and t…
Hillel and the Hermeneutic Rules
Francis Bacon on Imperial and Colonial Warfare
This article offers a textual and historical reconstruction of Francis Bacon's thought on imperial and colonial warfare. Bacon holds that conquest, acquisition of peoples and territory through force, followed by subjugation, confers a legal right and title. Imperial expansion is justified both by arguments concerning the interstate balance of power and by arguments related to internal order and stability. On Bacon's view, a successful state must …
Indirection and the Rhetoric of Tyranny: Carl Schmitt's The Tyranny of Values 1960–1967
This article situates Carl Schmitt's The Tyranny of Values (1960/1967/1979) within the context of Schmitt's 1940s and 1950s op-ed campaign for full amnesty for Nazi war criminals as well as the context of the Veit Harlan trials and the 1958 Lüth judgment of the German Constitutional Court. The article further examines the revisions to Schmitt's 1967 version of the text in the light of Karl Löwith's criticisms of Schmitt in an article in the Frank…
The Heat of a Feaver’: Francis Bacon on civil war, sedition, and rebellion
This article contrasts Francis Bacon’s (1561–1626) understanding of civil war, sedition, and rebellion with that of his near contemporaries and predecessors, especially Montaigne, Bodin, Machiavelli, Alberico Gentili and Edward Forset. The article contends that for Bacon, civil war, sedition, and rebellion are the antitheses of good government and that which prudent policy aims to avoid. The article further argues that for Bacon as sedition and i…
Interpretation and Critique: Jacob Taubes, Julien Freund, and the Interpretation of Hobbes
Anniversaries, birthdays, and jubilees, even those celebrating long-dead poets and philosophers, were not without significance in the public culture of twentieth-century Europe.Such celebrations, in the form of conferences, lectures, and broadsheet tributes on the pages of the feuilleton or culture pages of newspapers took their place in the rites and rituals, as well as debates and contestations, of the life of both intellectual engagement and t…
Rawlsian Jurisprudence and the Limits of Democracy
The present article analyses John Rawls’s advocacy of judicial review via a close reading of Rawls’s discussions of his “principles of paternalism” and his “four-stage sequence” in A Theory of Justice (1971). The article surveys Rawls’s political “principles of paternalism,” the limits, checks, and constraints he imposes on majority rule and civic participation, and finally the role Rawls assigns to courts, judges, and judicial review within his …
Hillel and the Hermeneutic Rules
Interpretation and Critique: Jacob Taubes, Julien Freund, and the Interpretation of Hobbes
Anniversaries, birthdays, and jubilees, even those celebrating long-dead poets and philosophers, were not without significance in the public culture of twentieth-century Europe.Such celebrations, in the form of conferences, lectures, and broadsheet tributes on the pages of the feuilleton or culture pages of newspapers took their place in the rites and rituals, as well as debates and contestations, of the life of both intellectual engagement and t…
Indirection and the Rhetoric of Tyranny: Carl Schmitt's The Tyranny of Values 1960–1967
This article situates Carl Schmitt's The Tyranny of Values (1960/1967/1979) within the context of Schmitt's 1940s and 1950s op-ed campaign for full amnesty for Nazi war criminals as well as the context of the Veit Harlan trials and the 1958 Lüth judgment of the German Constitutional Court. The article further examines the revisions to Schmitt's 1967 version of the text in the light of Karl Löwith's criticisms of Schmitt in an article in the Frank…
Carl Schmitt's Early Legal-Theoretical Writings: Statute and Judgment and the Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual
Many of Carl Schmitt's major works have by now been translated, with two notable exceptions: Schmitt's two early monographs Statute and Judgment (first published in 1912) and The Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual (first published in 1914). In these two works Schmitt presents a theory of adjudication as well as an account of the state's role in the realization of the rule of law, which together form the theoretical basis on…
Francis Bacon on religious warfare
For Francis Bacon (1561–1626), toleration is an end-state goal. In his New Atlantis, Christians and Jews alike live peaceably together as they did not in the England of his time, from which Jews were banned. Yet, for Bacon, toleration was not always, in the first instance, regarded as the means for its own attainment. The present article situates Bacon's utterances on religious warfare within four contexts: the writings of Richard Knolles, Giovan…
Rawlsian Jurisprudence and the Limits of Democracy
The present article analyses John Rawls’s advocacy of judicial review via a close reading of Rawls’s discussions of his “principles of paternalism” and his “four-stage sequence” in A Theory of Justice (1971). The article surveys Rawls’s political “principles of paternalism,” the limits, checks, and constraints he imposes on majority rule and civic participation, and finally the role Rawls assigns to courts, judges, and judicial review within his …
The Heat of a Feaver’: Francis Bacon on civil war, sedition, and rebellion
This article contrasts Francis Bacon’s (1561–1626) understanding of civil war, sedition, and rebellion with that of his near contemporaries and predecessors, especially Montaigne, Bodin, Machiavelli, Alberico Gentili and Edward Forset. The article contends that for Bacon, civil war, sedition, and rebellion are the antitheses of good government and that which prudent policy aims to avoid. The article further argues that for Bacon as sedition and i…
Francis Bacon on Imperial and Colonial Warfare
This article offers a textual and historical reconstruction of Francis Bacon's thought on imperial and colonial warfare. Bacon holds that conquest, acquisition of peoples and territory through force, followed by subjugation, confers a legal right and title. Imperial expansion is justified both by arguments concerning the interstate balance of power and by arguments related to internal order and stability. On Bacon's view, a successful state must …
Eutopia of Empire: Francis Bacon’s Short View and the Imperial and Colonial Background to the New Atlantis
The present article considers Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis against the backdrop of Bacon’s Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain, one of Bacon’s least studied and most imperially audacious and bellicose texts. In the Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain, Bacon argues for a naval war and blockade of both the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish colonies in the Americas, advocating the British seizure of the latter. The article ar…
Liberty and Equality
The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation
Dark Places: Crime and Politics in the Personal Noir of James Ellroy
Freedom, Intentionality and the Classic: A Comment on Quentin Skinner’s Liberty as Independence
If It’s a Lie, It Must Be Important: An Interview with Anne Norton on Identity, Property, and the Study of Politics
Sociopolitical Geographies: A Comment on Georgios Varouxakis's The West
At the outset, heartfelt congratulations to Professor Varouxakis on The West. Georgios Varouxakis's The West is an admirably learned, engaging, and valuable work, and it is a pleasure to comment on...
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