Illene hunt biography
- Eileen Margaret Hunt is an American political theorist and professor of political science.
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- Eileen Margaret Hunt (Botting) (born 1971) is an American political theorist and professor of political science.
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Eileen M. Hunt
Biography
Eileen Hunt is a Professor of Political Science and a political theorist whose scholarly interests cover modern political thought, feminism, the family, rights, ethics of technology, and philosophy and literature. She has published five solo-authored books, including her recent trilogy on Mary Shelley and political philosophy for Penn Press: Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in 'Frankenstein' (2018); Artificial Life After Frankenstein (2021), which won the David Easton Award "for a book that broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical significance in political life through any of a variety of approaches in the social sciences and humanities" from the Foundations of Political Theory Section of the American Political Science Association; and The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination (2024). She also has published five edited or co-edited books—most recently, in a one-volume, updated, illustrated paperback, Portraits of Wollstonecraft: The Making o Eileen Hunt, a professor in the Department of Political Science, haswon the David Easton Award for her 2021 book, Artificial Life After Frankenstein. The annual award from the American Political Science Association’s Foundations of Political Theory section recognizes a book that “broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical significance in political life through … approaches in the social sciences and humanities.” In Artificial Life After Frankenstein, Hunt builds on her prior work applying political theory to interpret Mary Shelley’s classic 1818 novel Frankenstein. She develops a theoretical framework for how to bring technology-based ethical issues — like making artificial intelligence, robots, genetically engineered children and other artificially-shaped life forms — into debates on human rights, international law, theories of justice, and philosophies of education and parent-child ethics. T The following is a review of Eileen Hunt‘s Portraits of Wollstonecraft, by Sylvana Tomaselli, based on a talk she gave at the book launch organized by Notre Dame. Why Appearances Matter, or, the Appearance of Mary Wollstonecraft I will not be the only person who on reading Portraits of Wollstonecraft wished it had appeared a long time ago. Considering the many presentations and representations of Wollstonecraft these two volumes bring together gives rise to a myriad of disparate thoughts not only about her as an author, but also about issues of methodology in the history of ideas, of philosophy and political thought, and of feminisms. They make one reflect, amongst other things, about biography as a genre as well as about autobiographies. They make one ponder as to how thinkers become adopted, appropriated in various ways, and owned. This is brought home by the very helpful accounts of the serial ownership of portraitures of Wollstonecraft, those by Keenan and Opie in particular. It is also highlighted, for instance, by Alice Wexler’s remarks in ‘Emma Goldman on
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Eileen Hunt’s book Artificial Life After Frankenstein wins award for broadening horizons of contemporary political science
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