Reading Texts on Sovereignty: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Stella Achilleos is Associate Professor of Early Modern Studies at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus. Her research interests include the intersections between early modern literature and political philosophy (with special focus on the concept of sovereignty), early modern utopian thought, and the early modern discourses of friendship. She has published widely within her areas of expertise and her current research projects include a book-length study on violence and utopia in the early modern period.

Antonis Balasopoulos is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus. His research interests include comparative utopian studies, 19th and early 20th-century prose fiction, political theory and political philosophy. His essays have appeared in journals including Cultural Critique, Utopian Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Theory and Event, and in a number of edited collections, including the Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature. He is currently working on a book entitled Figures of Utopia: Literature, Politics, Philosophy.