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Dr Nathaniel Boyd
Researcher

Biography

Nathaniel joined the Department of Politics and International Relations in September 2019 as an Associate Fellow on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique. As of March 2021, he is a post-doctoral researcher on this project. Nathaniel’s research focuses on the history of political and constitutional thought and particularly G.W.F. Hegel’s relation to this tradition.

In 2015, Nathaniel defended his doctorate at Brunel University, which successfully explored Hegel’s concept of estates and its relation to modernity. Since that time he has extended his research by publishing on Hobbes and his reception in the German tradition and Hegel’s interaction with Hobbes in his speculative theory of consciousness.

Furthermore, Nathaniel has forthcoming publications on the international law thinker Emer de Vattel, constituent power and tyranny in Hegel’s Jena writings, as well as a theoretical elaboration on the concept of crisis and its relation to constitutional thought and political Aristotelianism in Hegel’s Verfassungsschrift.

Currently, he is working on a monograph devoted to Hegel’s political thought and its relation to the afterlives of political Aristotelianism.

He is a member of ESHPT and an associate researcher at the Department of Philosophy, the University of Namur where he previously held a postdoctoral research position.

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Dr Nathaniel Boyd
Researcher
Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of York
York
YO10 5DD

Tel: +32 49 3710367

https://rethinkingcivilsociety.org/