About the Authors

Ingrid Creppell is Associate Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, Washington, DC. She is the author of Toleration and Identity: Foundations in Early Modern Thought (New York: Routledge, 2003), co-editor of Toleration on Trial (Lexington Books, 2008) and articles in Archives Européennes de Sociologie, Political Theory, and Res Publica.

Robert P. Kraynak is professor of political science at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He is the author of History and Modernity in the Thought of Thomas Hobbes (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990); Christian Faith and Modern Democracy (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001); and the editor with Glenn Tinder of In Defense of Human Dignity (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003).

William Lund is professor of political science at the University of Idaho. His research interests include the history of political thought and contemporary moral and political philosophy. He has published articles on Hobbes in History of Political Thought, Hobbes Studies, and The Journal of the History of Ideas. His work on issues in the debate between liberals and communitarians has been published in various journals, including Social Theory and Practice, Political Research Quarterly, and Journal of Social Philosophy, and as a chapter in Autonomy and Order: A Communitarian Anthology, ed. Edward Lehman (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

Noel Malcolm is a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. A member of the editorial board of the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Hobbes, he has published an edition of Hobbes’s Correspondence in that series (2 vols, 1994), and is currently preparing both an edition of Leviathan (English and Latin) for it, and a biography of Hobbes. His Aspects of Hobbes was published by Clarendon Press in 2002. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

A. P. Martinich, Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor of Philosophy, Professor of History and Government, author of The Two Gods of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Religion and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), A Hobbes Dictionary (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1995), Thomas Hobbes (London: Macmillan, 1997), Hobbes: A Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), Hobbes (Routledge, 2005); and editor of Philosophy of Language, 4 vols (Routledge, 2009).

Tomaž Mastnak is Director of Research in the Institute of Philosophy at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and is currently a Fellow at the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University. He is the author of Crusading Peace: Christendom, the Muslim World, and Western Political Order (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002) and is completing a project on the history of the idea of Europe.

Paul Seaward has been Director of the History of Parliament in London since 2001. He has published work on politics in Restoration England, including The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, 1661-67 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), on seventeenth-century royalism and on parliament in the twentieth century. His edition of Behemoth for the Clarendon edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes will be published in 2009. He is currently working on a biography of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, and is general editor, with Martin Dzelzainis, of an edition of Clarendon’s works.

Gabriella Slomp (PhD, LSE) is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of St Andrews (Scotland). She is the author of Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory (Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000) and of Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Hostility, Violence and Terror (Palgrave, 2009).

Johann P. Sommerville, professor, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Author of Royalists and Patriots: Politics and Ideology in England, 1603-1640 (Harlow: Longman, 1999), and of Thomas Hobbes: Political Ideas in Historical Context (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1992).

Tom Sorell is John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham. Among his books is Hobbes (London: Routledge, 1986). He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), of Hobbes and History (London: Routledge, 2000, with John Rogers), and Leviathan After 350 Years (Oxford: Clarendon, 2005).

Michael A. Soubbotnik is Maître de Conférences de Philosophie at the University Paris-Est (laboratory LISAA 4120). He is the author of Philosophie des actes de langage: la doublure mentale et l’ordinaire des langues (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001).

Patricia Springborg is professor in the School of Economics of the Free University of Bolzano. She is a member of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and has been a Visiting Fellow at research institutes in Berlin, Oxford, and Uppsala. Her publications include The Problem of Human Needs and the Critique of Civilization (London: Allen & Unwin, 1981), Royal Persons (London: Unwin Hyman,1991), Western Republicanism and the Oriental Prince (Cambridge: Polity, 1992), Mary Astell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), and three editions of Mary Astell’s writings. She has published a number of articles on Thomas Hobbes, and a critical edition of Hobbes’s Historia ecclesiastica (Paris: Champion, 2008).

Geoffrey M. Vaughan is assistant professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His research interests include the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, the history and development of liberalism, and political education. Recent publications include Behemoth Teaches Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Political Education (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2002), and ‘The Audience of Leviathan and the Audience of Hobbes’s Political Philosophy’, History of Political Thought 22 (2001).