Erica Benner
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Recent online pieces on women writing, democratic crisis, ancient Athens, progress, political knowledge and ignorance, and more ​https://engelsbergideas.com/author/erica-benner/
Books  (monographs) 

True Democracy (Penguin Allen Lane, forthcoming 2023)

Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom (Penguin Allen Lane, 2017)
Translations in Complex Chinese, Simple Chinese, Dutch, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Turkish
 
Machiavelli’s Prince: A New Reading (Oxford University Press, 2013)
 
Machiavelli’s Ethics (Princeton University Press, 2009)

Really Existing Nationalisms (Oxford University Press, 1995; new paperback edition Verso, 2018)



Select articles and book chapters

Nationalism

‘The Idea of the Nation’ (co-authored with David Miller) in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, 2021
 
‘Can Nationalism Save Democracy?’ in Nations and Nationalism, vol. 26 (3), July 2020
 
‘The Varieties of Nationalist Thought’ in The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought, eds. Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon, Vol. I (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
 

‘Nationalism: Intellectual Origins’ in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism, ed. John Breuilly (Oxford University Press, 2013)

‘The Nation State’ in The Cambridge History of Nineteenth Century Philosophy, 1790-1870, ed. Allen W. Wood (2012)
 
‘Japanese national doctrines in international perspective’ in Nationalisms in Japan, ed. Naoko Shimazu (Routledge, 2006)
 
‘Really existing nationalisms’, in Nations and Nationalism: A Reader, ed. P. Spencer and H. Wollman (Rutgers University Press, 2005)
 
‘The liberal limits of republican nationality’ in Forms of Justice, ed. Daniel A. Bell and Avner de-Shalit (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002).
 
‘Is there a core national doctrine?’ Nations and Nationalism, vol. 7.3. (155-174), April 2001.
 
‘Marx and Engels on nationalism’ in International Relations: Critical Perspectives, ed. Andrew Linklater, vol. 3 (Routledge, 2000)
 
‘National myths and political responsibility’ in Society and Economy in Central and Eastern Europe, vol. 20, no. 1, (131-142) 1998.
 
‘Nationality without nationalism’ in Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 2, no. 2 (189-206) 1997.
 
‘Nationalism within reason’ in Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 43, no. 1 (28-40) 1997.
 
 ‘Marx and Engels on nationalism and national identity: a reappraisa
l' in Millennium, vol. 17, no. 1, 1988 (also translated into Turkish, above)

 
Democracy

See my Engelsberg Ideas online page for recent short pieces


'Democratic Crisis: Lessons from Athens and Florence' in Crisis and Renewal in the History of European Political Thought, eds. Laszlo Kontler and Cesare Cuttica (Brill, 2021)

'Nicias' in Engelsberg Ideas  (2021) 

‘Democracy's Pathologies: Lessons from Ancient Athens’ in Past and Present: To Learn from History, ed. Kurt Almqvist and Mattias Hessérus (Bökforlaget, Stockholm 2020)


'On Civility' in City, Civility, and Capitalism (Bökforlaget, Stockholm 2020)

‘Three Causes of Political Corruption’ in Why Do Polities Decline? (Ax:son Johnson Books, Stockholm, 2018)

‘Beyond Demagoguery: the Contemporary Crisis of Political Communication’ in Rethinking Open Society: New Adversaries and New Opportunities, ed. Michael Ignatieff and Stefan Roch (Central European University Press, 2018)

Political Realism  
 
‘Realism and Human Nature: Classical and Modern arguments’ in The Edinburgh Companion to Political Realism, eds. Miles Hollingworth and Robert Schuett (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)


The Rule of Law

'The Daimons' Wisdom' in Lapham's Quarterly, Issue on Law (Spring 2018)

Machiavelli

‘The way to hell: Machiavelli on the causes of corruption in republics’ in Why Do Polities Decline? (Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2018)
 
‘Natural suspicion and reasonable trust’ in Trust and Happiness in European Political Thought, ed. Laszlo Kontler and Mark Somos (Brill, 2018)
 
‘The necessity to be Not-Good: rethinking Machiavelli’s Realism’ in Liberty and Conflict: Machiavelli on Politics and Power, ed. Nadia Urbinati, David Johnston, and Camila Vergara (University of Chicago Press, 2017)

 
‘Niccolò Machiavelli’s Two Realisms’ in The Return of the Theorists: Dialogues with Foundational Thinkers, ed. Richard Ned Lebow, Peer Schouten, and Hidemi Suganami (Palgrave, 2016)
 
‘Machiavelli’s Ironies: the Language of Praise and Blame in the Prince.’ In Social Research: An International Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 2 (Summer 2014)
 
‘Questa inconstante dea: Machiavelli’s Amoral Fortuna.’ In SpazioFilosofico, Special Issue on Fortuna, No. 12 (October 2014)
 
‘Las ironias de Maquiavelo: Estándares generales y el consejo ironico en El Principe.’ Chapter in El Principe de Maquiavelo: desafios, legados y significados, ed. Jorge Andrés López Rivera. Sello Editorial Javeriana (2014)
(Spanish translation of my keynote lecture, 2013 symposium on ‘El Principe de Maquiavelo 500 años despues’, Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)
 
‘Marx ve Engels’te Milliyetçilik ve Milli Kimlik: Bir Yeniden Degerlendirme.’ Çev. U Alkan, Mülkiye Dergisi, 38 (1) (2014)

 ‘Der Fürst, Kap. XII-XVI’ in Otfried Höffe, ed. Machiavelli: Der Fürst (Klassiker-Auslegen-Band, 2012)

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         The Daimon's Wisdom

Lapham's Quarterly, Issue on The Rule of Law Spring 2018


Spanish translation in Revista Brazsil here


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