Dr Edward Hall
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
Senior Lecturer in Political Theory
edward.hall@sheffield.ac.uk
G60, Elmfield Building
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Dr Edward Hall
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
G60
Elmfield Building
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 2TU
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
G60
Elmfield Building
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 2TU
- 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 Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2020), and co-editor of Political Ethics: A Handbook (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
- Power and powerlessness: the liberalism of fear in the twenty-first century. Oxford University Press. View this article in WRRO
- Value, Conflict, and Order : Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Edited books
- Political Ethics: A Handbook..
Journal articles
- Ideological self-consciousness: Judith Shklar on legalism, liberalism, and the purposes of political theory. Social Philosophy and Policy, 41(1), 105-125. View this article in WRRO
- Complacent and conservative? Redeeming the Liberalism of Fear. The Journal of Politics, 85(3), 1064-1078. View this article in WRRO
- Introduction: Dirty Hands and Beyond, 1-20.
- Political compromise and dirty hands. The Review of Politics, 84(2), 214-237. View this article in WRRO
- Human rights, legitimacy, political judgement. Res Publica, 27(2), 171-185.
- Integrity in democratic politics. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 20(2), 395-408. View this article in WRRO
- Ethics, morality and the case for realist political theory. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 20(3), 276-290. View this article in WRRO
- Skepticism about unconstrained utopianism. Social Philosophy and Policy, 33(1-2), 76-95. View this article in WRRO
- How to do realistic political theory (and why you might want to). European Journal of Political Theory. View this article in WRRO
- Bernard Williams and the Basic Legitimation Demand: A Defence. Political Studies, 63(2), 466-480.
- Political Realism and Fact-Sensitivity. Res Publica, 19(2), 173-181.
- Hobbes's Liberty and Skinner's Discontent. Politics, 30(1), 11-17.
- Seductions of Power: Political Irresponsibility and the Theory of Dirty Hands. European Journal of Political Theory.
- Judith Shklar’s Ethos of Skeptical Vigilance. The Review of Politics.
- Contingency, Confidence, and Liberalism in the Political Thought of Bernard Williams. Social Theory and Practice, 40(4), 545-569.
Book chapters
- 3 Political Integrity, Political Ethics (pp. 65-81). Princeton University Press
- DIRTY HANDS AND BEYOND Introduction, POLITICAL ETHICS (pp. 1-20).
Book reviews
- Suet puddings and red pillar boxes: a review of Marc Stears’ Out of the Ordinary. European Journal of Political Theory, 22(2), 363-372.
- Pietro Maffettone, International Toleration: A Theory (Oxford: Routledge, 2020), pp. 186. Res Publica, 28(3), 551-556.
- Raymond Geuss, Who Needs a World View?. Society, 59(1), 93-95.
- Shmuel Nili: Integrity, Personal and Political. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 208.). The Review of Politics, 84(3), 459-462.
- Book Review: The Political Is Political: Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy, by Lorna Finlayson. Political Theory, 46(2), 322-327.
- Why not. European Journal of Political Theory, 17(1), 109-117.
- Book Review: Michael Foley, Political Leadership: Themes, Contexts and Critiques. Political Studies Review, 15(1), 90-90.
- Power and powerlessness: the liberalism of fear in the twenty-first century. Oxford University Press. View this article in WRRO
- 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 Study 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