Adam Lindsay

Contact

• workRoom B109 Law and Social Sciences Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Adam.Lindsay3@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I joined the School as an Assistant Professor in September 2017, following the completion of my PhD. My work deals with the interface between the history of political thought and contemporary democratic theory, with a particular concern for debates over peoplehood and collective agency. I am currently working on a project that examines the shifting meaning of the concept of 'constituent power' in the history of European political and legal thought, and the implications this has upon our understanding of collective representation.

Teaching Summary

In the 2022-23 academic year I will be teaching on the following modules:

• Democracy and its Critics
• The British Constitution in Crisis
• Social and Global Justice
• Theories of the Modern State
• Introduction to Political Theory

Recent Publications

• LINDSAY, ADAM, 2022. Sieyès and Republican liberty European Journal of Political Theory. 21(1), 155-177
• LINDSAY, ADAM, 2019. "Pretenders of a Vile and Unmanly Disposition": Thomas Hobbes on the Fiction of Constituent Power Political Theory. 47(4), 475-499
• LINDSAY, ADAM, 2017. Hannah Arendt, the Problem of the Absolute and the Paradox of Constitutionalism, or: ‘How to Restart Time within an Inexorable Time Continuum’ Philosophy and Social Criticism. 43(10), 1022-1044

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I am very interested in supervising MRes and PhD students who want to work in the following areas:

• The history of European political thought, especially the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries.
• Contemporary democratic theory.
• Constitutional theory.
• The concept of peoplehood.
• The political thought of revolution.

• LINDSAY, ADAM, 2022. Sieyès and Republican liberty European Journal of Political Theory. 21(1), 155-177
• LINDSAY, ADAM, 2019. "Pretenders of a Vile and Unmanly Disposition": Thomas Hobbes on the Fiction of Constituent Power Political Theory. 47(4), 475-499
• LINDSAY, ADAM, 2017. Hannah Arendt, the Problem of the Absolute and the Paradox of Constitutionalism, or: ‘How to Restart Time within an Inexorable Time Continuum’ Philosophy and Social Criticism. 43(10), 1022-1044