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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Samantha L. Frost

Samantha L. Frost

Associate Professor
259 Computing Applications Bldg
605 E. Springfield
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 244-2277
frost@illinois.edu


Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1998

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

  •  Lessons from a materialist thinker: Hobbesian reflections on ethics and politics (Stanford University Press, 2008)

Books Edited or Co-Edited (Original Editions)

  • Samantha Frost and Diana Coole, editors, New Materialism: Ontology, Agency, and Politics (under contract, Duke University Press)

Journal Articles

  • "Reading the Body: Hobbes, body politics, and the vocation of political theory," in Vocations of Political Theory, eds. Frank and Tambornino (University of Minnesota Press, 2000).
  • "Faking It: Hobbes's thinking-bodies and the ethics of Dissimulation," Political Theory, February 2001
  • "Hobbes out of Bounds," Political Theory, April 2004
  • "Just Lie: Lessons from Hobbes on the Cultivation of Peace," Theory and Event, Summer 2004
  • "Hobbes and the Matter of Self-Consciousness" Political Theory, August 2005