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Jimmy Casas Klausen
Jimmy Casas Klausen writes on early modern European and twentieth-century political theory and focuses particularly on how the categories and arguments of each illuminate the other in late modernity as a function of the imperial origins of the modern European state. His current project, “Primitivism & Apophatic Anthropology,” offers an analysis of primitivism in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot and of negative anthropology in more recent French critical, psychoanalytic, and anticolonial theory.
Future projects include a study of the place of enmity in the critique of tyranny during the Dutch revolt against Spanish overrule and a book-length project on the tensions among imperial sovereignty, preemptive force, and Christian charity in the work of the Dutch political theorist Hugo Grotius.
He has published in the journals Polity, Theory & Event, and The Journal of Politics. He has also participated in discussions of the politics of sexuality and secularity on the SSRC blog The Immanent Frame.
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Recent Publications
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Jimmy Klausen
"Room Enough: America, Natural Liberty, and Consent in Locke’s Second Treatise.” Journal of Politics 69.3 (August 2007): 760-69.
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Jimmy Klausen
". . . the new-old enigma, of sovereignty.” Review of Jacques Derrida’s Rogues: Two Essays on Reason (2005). Theory & Event 9.3 (2006).
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Jimmy Klausen
"Imperial Histories/Imperial Tragedy; or, America’s Middle East.” Review of Mahmood Mamdani’s Good Muslim, Bad Muslim (2004) and Rashid Khalidi’s Resurrecting Empire (2004). Theory & Event 8.4 (2005).
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Jimmy Klausen
"Of Hobbes and Hospitality in Diderot’s Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville.” Polity 37.2 (April 2005): 167-92.
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Current Courses taught for Fall 2009-2010
506 - Topics in Political Philosophy
Instructors: Jimmy Klausen Field: Political Theory
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513 - Radical Political Theory
Instructors: Jimmy Klausen Field: Political Theory
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931 - Seminar - Political Theory (Topic: Political Theories of the French Revolution)
Instructors: Jimmy Klausen Field: Political Theory
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