Tim Stuart-Buttle
I am Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of York. My focus is on European theories of society from the mid-seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, with a particular attentiveness to early modern philosophers' increased emphasis on the individual's craving for the approval of others in explaining social co-ordination and the development of moral consensus. I am researching a monograph, provisionally entitled 'Recognition and Respect in Early Modern Philosophy: From Hobbes to Hegel and Beyond', which shows how Rousseau was very far from the first to appreciate the transformative (and deeply ambivalent) consequences which flowed from seeing one's self through another's eyes (that is, from processes of socialisation).
My first monograph, published by Oxford University Press in July 2019, is entitled 'From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy: Cicero, Christianity and Visions of Humanity from Locke to Hume'. Based on my doctoral thesis (undertaken at the University of Oxford, 2009-13), I attempt to explain why Cicero was such a presiding presence in British moral philosophy from Locke to Hume and beyond. British philosophers, I argue, were particularly drawn to the distinctive texture of Cicero's scepticism - and to his concerted interest in the relationship between religion, ethics and politics: both of which were held to carry important implications for many of the questions which most concerned contemporary moral and political philosophers.
From 2017-2020, I was a Post-doctoral Research Associate on Tim Stanton's Leverhulme Trust-funded project, 'Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique' (2017-2022), and based at the University of York. Previously (2014-17) I was a postdoc on the ERC-funded interdisciplinary project, 'Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: The Place of Literature', based at the University of Cambridge (2014-19), and a Junior Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Supervisors: Bob Harris and John Robertson
Address: York, United Kingdom
My first monograph, published by Oxford University Press in July 2019, is entitled 'From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy: Cicero, Christianity and Visions of Humanity from Locke to Hume'. Based on my doctoral thesis (undertaken at the University of Oxford, 2009-13), I attempt to explain why Cicero was such a presiding presence in British moral philosophy from Locke to Hume and beyond. British philosophers, I argue, were particularly drawn to the distinctive texture of Cicero's scepticism - and to his concerted interest in the relationship between religion, ethics and politics: both of which were held to carry important implications for many of the questions which most concerned contemporary moral and political philosophers.
From 2017-2020, I was a Post-doctoral Research Associate on Tim Stanton's Leverhulme Trust-funded project, 'Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique' (2017-2022), and based at the University of York. Previously (2014-17) I was a postdoc on the ERC-funded interdisciplinary project, 'Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: The Place of Literature', based at the University of Cambridge (2014-19), and a Junior Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Supervisors: Bob Harris and John Robertson
Address: York, United Kingdom
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The book should appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, theologians and historians of religion, and general readers with a broad interest in Renaissance cultures of knowing.
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The book should appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, theologians and historians of religion, and general readers with a broad interest in Renaissance cultures of knowing.