Samuel Garrett Zeitlin
HK Link Early Career Research Fellow and College Lecturer in Politics, Corpus Christi College
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Samuel Garrett Zeitlin is a Hong Kong Link Early Career Research Fellow and College Lecturer in Politics. He studies and teaches political philosophy, the history of political thought, and international relations. His dissertation, which he is currently working to revise into a scholarly monograph, examined the themes of war and peace in the political philosophy of Francis Bacon. His translation and edition (co-edited with R.A. Berman) of "Land and Sea" won an award in the "Religion" category at the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2016.
Prior to coming to Cambridge, he taught courses at UC-Berkeley, at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen, and at the University of Chicago, where he was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts.
Prior to coming to Cambridge, he taught courses at UC-Berkeley, at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen, and at the University of Chicago, where he was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts.
Political philosophy; history of political thought; international relations; Early Modern and Renaissance political thought; German political thought
History Papers 19, 20, and 5; Politics Papers 1, 7, 8, 10, 11; MPhil classes on method in the history of political thought
Contact
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Address
Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1RH
Email
sgz21@cam.ac.uk
Key publications
Edited Books
• R.A. Berman and S.G. Zeitlin eds. S.G. Zeitlin trans; C. Schmitt, The Tyranny of Values and Other Writings (Candor, New York: Telos Press Publishing, 2018).
Reviewed in: Philosophy in Review 40:1 (February 2020), pp. 36-38.
• R.A. Berman and S.G. Zeitlin eds. S.G. Zeitlin trans; C. Schmitt, Land and Sea, A world-historical Meditation (Candor, New York: Telos Press Publishing, 2015).
Awards: 2016 Independent Book Publisher Awards-Bronze Medal (Religion); 2015 London Book Festival Award in History
Reviewed in: Thesis Eleven; Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Association of American Geographers (AAG) Review of Books.
• R.A. Berman and S.G. Zeitlin eds. S.G. Zeitlin trans; C. Schmitt, The Tyranny of Values and Other Writings (Candor, New York: Telos Press Publishing, 2018).
Reviewed in: Philosophy in Review 40:1 (February 2020), pp. 36-38.
• R.A. Berman and S.G. Zeitlin eds. S.G. Zeitlin trans; C. Schmitt, Land and Sea, A world-historical Meditation (Candor, New York: Telos Press Publishing, 2015).
Awards: 2016 Independent Book Publisher Awards-Bronze Medal (Religion); 2015 London Book Festival Award in History
Reviewed in: Thesis Eleven; Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Association of American Geographers (AAG) Review of Books.
Other publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles (recent)
• “Indirection and the Rhetoric of Tyranny: Carl Schmitt’s The Tyranny of Values 1960-1967ˮ forthcoming in Modern Intellectual History (first view, February 2020)
• “Propaganda und Kritik: Eine Einführung in Carl Schmitts Land und Meer,” in Politisches Denken Jahrbuch 2017, vol. 27, pp. 115-144.
• “Interpretation and Critique: Jacob Taubes, Julien Freund, and the Interpretation of Hobbes,” in Telos 181 (Winter 2017), pp. 9-39.
Translated Book
S.G. Zeitlin, trans.; A. Kalyvas and F. Finchelstein eds; C. Schmitt, Dialogues on Power and Space (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2015)
Reviewed in: European Political Science; Cambridge Review of International Affairs; Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, 58:3 (June-July 2016) [Brief notice]; Association of American Geographers (AAG) Review of Books 7:4 (October 2019).
• “Indirection and the Rhetoric of Tyranny: Carl Schmitt’s The Tyranny of Values 1960-1967ˮ forthcoming in Modern Intellectual History (first view, February 2020)
• “Propaganda und Kritik: Eine Einführung in Carl Schmitts Land und Meer,” in Politisches Denken Jahrbuch 2017, vol. 27, pp. 115-144.
• “Interpretation and Critique: Jacob Taubes, Julien Freund, and the Interpretation of Hobbes,” in Telos 181 (Winter 2017), pp. 9-39.
Translated Book
S.G. Zeitlin, trans.; A. Kalyvas and F. Finchelstein eds; C. Schmitt, Dialogues on Power and Space (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2015)
Reviewed in: European Political Science; Cambridge Review of International Affairs; Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, 58:3 (June-July 2016) [Brief notice]; Association of American Geographers (AAG) Review of Books 7:4 (October 2019).