Dr. Ted H. Miller
Associate Professor
- tmiller@ua.edu
- ten Hoor Hall 315
Education
- PhD, University of California–San Diego
- BA, University of Chicago
Research Areas
- Political Theory
About
Office Hours:
By Appointment
Research Interests
- Political Theory
- Early Modern Political Philosophy
- Thomas Hobbes
- Sovereignty
- Continental Philosophy
- History of Science
- Politics and Literature
- Ordinary Language and Politics.
Teaching Interests
- Political Theory
- Modern Political Thought
- American Political Thought
- 20th & 21st Century Political Thought
Selected Publications
- Miller, Ted H. 2011. Mortal Gods: Science, Politics, and the Humanist Ambitions of Thomas Hobbes. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
- “The Two Deaths of Lady Macduff: Anti-Metaphysics, Violence and Davenant’s Restoration Revision of Macbeth,” Political Theory, 36 ( Dec., 2008): 6: 856-882.
- “The Uniqueness of Leviathan: Authorizing Poets, Philosophers, and Sovereigns” in Leviathan at Three Hundred and Fifty Years, ed. Tom Sorell, Oxford University Press, 2004, 75-103
- “Oakeshott’s Hobbes and the Fear of Political Rationalism”, Political Theory, (No.4, 2001), 807-833