Second Nature: Rethinking the Natural through Politics

The essays collected here, by both eminent and emerging scholars, engage interlocutors from Machiavelli to Arendt. Individually, they contribute compelling readings of important political thinkers and add fresh insights to debates in areas such as environmentalism and human rights. Together, the volume issues a call to think anew about nature, not only as a traditional concept that should be deconstructed or affirmed but also as a site of human political activity and struggle worthy of sustained theoretical attention.

Crina Archer is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Northwestern University. She is completing a dissertation project that examines temporality in democratic political thought, with a focus on temporal representations of revolutionary change. She is coauthor of Obstacles to Ethical Decision Making: Mental Models, Milgram, and the Problem of Obedience (Cambridge University Press, 2013).