Biography:Miguel Vatter

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Miguel Vatter
Alma materThe New School for Social Research (PhD)
Notable work
Machiavelli's The Prince: A Reader's Guide; The Republic of the Living: Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society; Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsDeakin University
LanguageEnglish; Spanish
Main interests
biopolitics; political theology; Machiavelli; republicanism

Miguel Vatter is a political theorist and professor whose research spans biopolitics, political theology, the history of republican thought, and the intellectual history of modern political thought. He is a professor of Politics at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, and has held appointments in Australia, the United States, and Chile.[1][2]

Books

  • Machiavelli's The Prince: A Reader's Guide (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).[3]
  • The Republic of the Living: Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society (Fordham University Press, 2014).[4][5]
  • Living Law: Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt (Oxford University Press, 2021).[6][7]
  • (editor, with Vanessa Lemm) The Viral Politics of COVID-19: Nature, Home and Planetary Health (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).[8]

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