A Comparative Perspective on Locke, Hobbes, and Schmitt

In this episode of New Work in Intellectual History, Dr Montserrat Herrero shares some of her insights to gain a comparative perspective on the political thought of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Carl Schmitt. The first episode focusses on the construction of absolute power, debating the differences, similarities and relations between the concepts of absolute power in the three thinkers.

Dr Montserrat Herrero is a Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Navarra in Spain, as well as editor of the Journal Anuario Filosófico. In 2015, she published a monograph with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers entitled The Political Discourse of Carl Schmitt: A Mystic of Order, which attempts to offer a wide-ranging discussion of Schmitt’s discourse beyond a focus on specific elements or themes within his texts.