SUSANNE SREEDHAR
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Books

  • Hobbes on Sex (under contract with Oxford University Press)
  • A New Modern Philosophy: The Inclusive Anthology of Primary Sources. (Co-edited with Gwendolyn Marshall). New York: Routledge, 2019.  [Second edition July 2023]
  • Hobbes on Resistance: Defying the Leviathan. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Articles and Book Chapters

  • "Is the Hobbesian State of Nature Racialized?" Hobbes Studies 36/1 (2023): 28-50.
  • “Locke on Marriage.” In The Lockean Mind. Edited by Jessica Gordon-Roth and Shelley Weinberg. New York: Routledge, 2021: 498-506.
  • "Hobbes's Moral and Political Philosophy." (With Sharon A. Lloyd). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Last update:  2022).
  • “Hobbes on Sexual Morality.” Hobbes Studies 33/1 (2020): 54-83.
  • “The Right of Nature and Political Disobedience: Hobbes’s Puzzling Thought Experiment.” In Hobbes’s On the Citizen: A Critical Guide. Edited by Robin Douglass and Johan Olsthoorn. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020: 71-88. 
  • “The Curious Case of Hobbes’s Amazons.” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 57/4 (October 2019): 621-646.
  • “Interpreting Hobbes on Civil Liberties and Rights of Resistance.” In Interpreting Hobbes’s Political Philosophy. Edited by S. A. Lloyd. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019: 141-155.
  • “Political Philosophy.” In The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy. Edited by Dan Kaufman. New York: Routledge, 2018: 476-502.
  • “Gender, Revolution, Marriage, and Politics: Contracts in Seventeenth-Century Political Theory.” In The Humanities in a World Upside Down: Theory and Praxis. Edited by Ignacio López-Calvo. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017: 88-100.
  • “Feminist History of Philosophy.” In Philosophy: Feminism. Edited by Carol Hay. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2017: 141-166. 
  • “Rethinking Hobbes and Locke on Religious Toleration.” In Philosophy, Religion and Political Theology. Edited by Allen Speight and Michael Zank. Dordrecht: Springer Press, 2017: 39-56. 
  • “A Hobbesian Approach to Public Policy.” In Hobbesian Applied Ethics and Public Policy. Edited by Shane D. Courtland. New York: Routledge, 2017: 11-27.
  • “Locke, the Law of Nature, and Polygamy.” (With Julie Walsh). Journal of the American Philosophical Association 2/1 (Spring 2016): 91-110.
  • “Pufendorf on Patriarchy.” History of Philosophy Quarterly 31/3 (July 2014): 209-227.
  • “Constitutions and Social Contracts.” In The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy. Edited by Aaron Garrett. New York: Routledge, 2014: 618-42.
  • “Political Philosophy and Law.” In The Bloomsbury Companion to Hobbes. Edited by S.A. Lloyd, New York: Bloomsbury, 2013: 145-241. [Author of 19 out of the 28 entries for this chapter.]
  • “In Harm’s Way: Hobbes on the Duty to Fight for One’s Country.” In Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century. Edited by S. A. Lloyd. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013: 209-28. 
  • “Toward a Hobbesian Theory of Sexuality.” In Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes. Edited by Nancy Hirschmann and Joanne Wright. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2012: 260-79. 
  • “Hobbes on ‘The Woman Question’.” Philosophy Compass 7/11 (November 2012): 772-81.
  • "Complicating ‘Out’: The Case of Queer Femmes.” (With Alice MacLachlan). In Passing/Out: Sexual Identity Veiled and Revealed. Edited by Dennis R. Cooley and Kelby Harrison. Surry, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2012: 51-60.
  • “Anarchism, Historical Illegitimacy, and Civil Disobedience: Reflections on A. John Simmons’s Disobedience and Its Objects.” The Boston University Law Review 90/4 (August 2010): 1833-46.
  • “State Legitimacy and Political Obligation in Justice for Hedgehogs: The Radical Potential of Dworkinian Dignity.” (With Candice Delmas) The Boston University Law Review 90/2 (April 2010): 737-58.
  • "Defending the Hobbesian Right of Self-Defense.” Political Theory 36/6 (December 2008): 781-802. 
  • ​“The Ethics of Exclusion: Gender and Politics at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival.” (With Michael Hand). In Trans/Forming Feminisms. Edited by Krista Scott-Dixon. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2006: 161-69.

​Book Reviews

  • ​Review of David Dyzenhaus and Thomas Poole (eds) Hobbes and the Law. Ethics 124/4 (2014): 894-99.
  • Review of Michael P. Krom’s The Limits of Reason in Hobbes's Commonwealth. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20/6 (2012): 1209-12.
  • Review of Bernard Gert’s Hobbes: Prince of Peace. Notre Dame Philosophical Review (May 2011). 
  • Review of Eleanor Curran’s Reclaiming the Rights of the Hobbesian Subject. Hobbes Studies 21/1 (2008): 99-103. 
  • Review of Patricia Springborg (ed) The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes’s Leviathan. Notre Dame Philosophical Review (May 2008). 
  • Review of Stephen J. Finn’s Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Natural Philosophy. Notre Dame Philosophical Review (October 2006). 
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