Eero Arum
I specialize in the history of political thought, especially Renaissance and early modern political philosophy. My core research interests lie in the early modern theory of sovereignty and its critics, Renaissance absolutism, and political theology. My dissertation project, Absolute Democracy, reconstructs absolutist conceptions of democracy in early modern Europe and their revival in Weimar political thought. I also have a longstanding interest in Aristotle and the Aristotelian commentary tradition, in Niccolò Machiavelli, and in Jean Bodin.
My research has been published or is forthcoming in Political Theory, History of Political Thought, The Review of Politics, and The Cambridge History of Democracy, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.
Before beginning my graduate studies, I received my B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from the University of Chicago (2018), then taught English as a second language through Fulbright Austria's USTA Program (2018-2020). I currently hold a predoctoral fellowship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).
"Absolute Democracy: Bodin and Hobbes" (co-authored with Kinch Hoekstra). In The Cambridge History of Democracy, Vol. 2: The Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, edited by Sophie Smith and Markku Peltonen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).