Between Sovereignty and Tyranny: Britannicus

Authors

  • Timothy J. Reiss

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Author Biography

Timothy J. Reiss

Timothy J. Reiss is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University, though currently teaching at the University of Oregon. His most recent book is Knowledge, Language and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: The Rise of Aesthetic Rationalism (1997). His previous work, The Meaning of Literature (1992), won the 1992 Forkosch Prize in Intellectual History and was a Choice Best Academic Book of 1993. He is at present completing two volumes on ideas of personhood from European antiquity to early modemity, one on contemporary cultural exchanges, and is at work on a book focusing on Descartes and cultural changes in the European seventeenth century. The present essay is one of a series that will eventually be gathered in a book on Racine and political thinking.

Published

2021-02-25