Dr Edward Hall
Department of Politics and International Relations
Senior Lecturer in Political Theory
+44 114 222 1709
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Department of Politics and International Relations
G60
Modular Teaching Village
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 1AJ
- Profile
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Dr Edward Hall joined the Department in 2014 and is currently a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory.
He works on three main research areas: political ethics, liberal political thought, and realist political theory. He is author of : Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2020), and co-editor of (Princeton University Press, 2022). He has published in journals including Journal of Politics, Political Studies, European Journal of Political Theory, Social Philosophy & Policy, Review of Politics, and Social Theory and Practice.
He was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship in 2021 for a project on the contemporary significance of Judith Shklar’s liberalism of fear. He is currently writing a book on this topic, tentatively entitled Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century, which is under contract with Oxford University Press.
- Research interests
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Realist Political Theory
Political Ethics
British moral and political thought since World War Two
- Publications
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Books
- . Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Edited books
- Political Ethics: A Handbook..
Journal articles
- Introduction: Dirty Hands and Beyond. Political Ethics: A Handbook, 1-20.
- . The Review of Politics.
- . Res Publica, 27(2), 171-185.
- . The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 20(2), 395-408.
- . European Journal of Political Theory, 16(3), 283-303.
- . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 20(3), 276-290.
- . Social Philosophy and Policy, 33(1-2), 76-95.
- . Political Studies, 63(2), 466-480.
- . Ethical Perspectives, 20(2), 217-243.
- Political Realism and fact-sensitivity. Res Publica.
- . Politics, 30(1), 11-17.
- Ideological Self-Consciousness: Judith Shklar on Legalism, Liberalism, and the Purposes of Political Theory. Social Philosophy and Policy.
- Complacent and Conservative? Redeeming the Liberalism of Fear. Journal of Politics.
- . Social Theory and Practice, 40(4), 545-569.
Chapters
- DIRTY HANDS AND BEYOND Introduction, POLITICAL ETHICS (pp. 1-20).
- Political Integrity, POLITICAL ETHICS (pp. 65-81).
Book reviews
- . European Journal of Political Theory, 22(2), 363-372.
- . Society, 59(1), 93-95.
- . The Review of Politics, 84(3), 459-462.
- . European Journal of Political Theory, 17(1), 109-117.
- . Political Theory, 46(2), 322-327.
- . Political Studies Review, 15(1), 90-90.
- . Res Publica.
- . Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
- Research group
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I would be happy to supervise research in the following broad areas:
- Contemporary political theory
- Realist political thought
- History of modern political theory
- Political ethics
- Teaching activities
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I am not teaching for the duration of my Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Co-convenor: 2017 Association for Social and Political Philosophy conference on ‘Political Ethics’, University of Sheffield, 27-29/06/2017
- Examiner: Introduction to Modern Political Thought and Contemporary Political Theory papers, University of London External Â鶹ֱ²¥app Programme, 2012-2014
- Convenor: ‘Realism and Twentieth Century British Political Thought’ panel. MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, Ninth Annual Conference: 5th – 7th September 2012
- Founding committee member: Graduate/early career seminar in the history of political ideas. Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Senate House, University of London.
Recent invited papers and keynote lectures
- ‘All determination is negation: Stuart Hampshire and the vitality of conflict’, Political Theory and Cultural Values Seminar, University of Leeds, 08/03/2017
- ‘Skepticism about unconstrained utopianism’, Political Theory Seminar, University of York, 12/01/2016
- ‘Skepticism about unconstrained utopianism’, Social Philosophy and Policy conference, University of Arizona, 04/12/2015
- ‘Integrity in Politics’, Association for Social and Political Philosophy Conference, University of Amsterdam, 25/06/2015
- ‘How to do realistic political theory (and why you might want to)’, RIPPLE Seminar, KU Leuven, 02/04/2015
- ‘Realism as anti-moralism’, Conference on Political Realism, National University of Singapore, 09/01/2015
- ‘Political Theory and its Audience: A Realist Perspective’, Association of Legal and Social Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Leeds, 02/07/2014
- ‘Philp on Political Conduct: An Evaluation’, A celebration and critical evaluation of the work of Mark Philp, University of Oxford, 22/04/2014
- ‘Political Theory and its Audience: A Realist Perspective’, Doing Realist Political Theory: Beyond Critique Conference, University of Sheffield, 09/12/2013
- ‘Contingency, Confidence, and Liberalism in the Political Thought of Bernard Williams’, Realist Legitimacy Panel: MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, 06/09/2013
- ‘Williams, Dunn and the Realism Constraint’, Realism and Twentieth Century British Political Thought Panel, MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, 05/09/2012
- ‘The Limits of Bernard Williams’s Critique of Political Moralism’, Realism in Political Theory Conference, University of York, 16/11/2011
- ‘Facts, Principles and Political Philosophy’, Nordic Network on Political Ethics (NNPE) Conference on Normative Political Philosophy, Vejle, Denmark, 31/05/2011
- Supervision Expertise
Political Theory