Eric M. Nelson

Who is Eric M. Nelson?

Eric Nelson is an American historian and Professor of Government at Harvard University.

He received his A.B. from Harvard University and his PhD from The University of Cambridge.

His scholarly interests include the reception of classical political thought in early-modern Europe, the history of republican political theory, the Hebrew republic, theories of property, and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. According to Diana Muir, Nelson is "one of a group of scholars engaged in the enterprise of re-evaluating the origins of modern political theory". According to Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Nelson's Hebrew Republic "demonstrates unforgettably that we need to understand piety to comprehend politics."