Sarah Greenberg, Ph.D. candidate in government at Cornell University, will present her paper "The Metaphor(s) of Moses in Hobbes's Leviathan." The paper will be circulated on an email list in advance and participants come prepared to discuss it.

Sarah B. Greenberg A&S '13 is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in political theory at Cornell. Her dissertation, “The Law is Not in Heaven: Covenant and Authority in Jewish Political Thought” argues that Jewish conceptions of covenant contain resources for rethinking hegemonic conceptions of authority in the ‘Western' political tradition. More broadly, Sarah’s research explores how conceptions of authority are derived from (mis)understandings of the Hebrew Bible, and how such (mis)understandings continue to disrupt how we understand the role of religion in political life, especially the kind of authority that religion models and perpetuates.

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For the 2022-23 academic year, the Political Theory Workshop is generously supported by the Africana Studies and Research Center, the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, the American Studies Program, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Asian Studies, the Department of Classics, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Institute for Comparative Modernities, the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the Department of German Studies, the Department of Government, the Department of History, the Society for the Humanities, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the Jewish Studies Program, the Latina/o Studies Program, the Department of Literatures in English, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Department of Performing and Media Arts, the Sage School of Philosophy, the Department of Romance Studies, and the Department of Science and Technology Studies.