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Email: ryan.hanley@bc.edu
Enlightenment Political Theory
Adam Smith
Politics and Literature
Ryan Patrick Hanley is Professor of Political Science at Ϲ College. Prior to joining the faculty at Ϲ College, he was the Mellon Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, and held visiting appointments or fellowships at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Chicago. A specialist on the political philosophy of the Enlightenment period, he is the author of Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge, 2009) and Love's Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity (Cambridge, 2017), and Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life (Princeton, 2019). His most recent projects include The Political Philosophy of Fénelon, and a companion translation volume, Fénelon: Moral and Political Writings, both of which will be published by Oxford in 2020.
The Political Philosophy of Fénelon(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
Translator and Editor,Fénelon: Moral and Political Writings(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019).
“The Human Good and the Science of Man,”History of European Ideas(ڴǰٳdzԲ).
“Tocqueville and the Philosophy of the Enlightenment,”Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America, ed.Richard Boyd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
“Distance Learning: The Political Education of Montesquieu’sPersian Letters,”Review of Politics83 (2021): 533-54.
“‘The Happiest and Most Honourable Period of My Life’: Adam Smith’s Service to the University of Glasgow,” inThe Scottish Enlightenment: Human Nature, Social Theory, and Moral Philosophy, ed. Robin Mills and CraigSmith (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2021), 115-131.
“L’éducation du prince selon Fénelon : de l’amour-propre à la justice,”Revue française d'histoire des idéespolitiques53 (2021): 113-24.
“Justice and Politics in theEnquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals,” inHume’s ‘Enquiry Concerning thePrinciples of Morals’: A Critical Guide, ed. Wim Lemmens and Esther Kroeker (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2021), 53-71.
“Rousseau’s Three Revolutions,”European Journal of Philosophy29 (2021): 105-119.
“Reply to My Critics” (part of symposium onThe Political Philosophy of FénelonԻFénelon: Moral and PoliticalWritings),European Journal of Political Theory20 (2021): 599-604.
“Magnanimity and Modernity: Greatness of Soul and Greatness of Mind in the Enlightenment,” inThe Measure ofGreatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity, ed. Sophia Vasalou (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 176-96.
“Fénelon and Rousseau,” inThe Rousseauian Mind, ed. Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly (London: Routledge, 2019), 87-97.
“Isaiah Berlin on the Nature and Purpose of the History of Ideas,” inCambridge Companion to IsaiahBerlin, ed. Joshua Cherniss and Steven B. Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 81-96.
“Smith, Rousseau, and Kant on Learning to Become Just,” inJustice, ed. Mark LeBar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 39-66.
“Freedom and Enlightenment,” inOxford Handbook of Freedom, ed. David Schmidtz and Carmen Pavel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 223-38.
“Rethinking Kant’s Debts to Rousseau,”Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie99 (2017): 380-404.
“Practicing PPE: The Case of Adam Smith,”Social Philosophy and Policy34 (2017): 277-295.
Love’s Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).