Hannah Dawson
Senior Lecturer in the History of Ideas, King's College London
I teach the History of Ideas at King's College London. I work on early modern philosophy, especially moral and political thought, and also the history of feminism.
EXPs by Hannah Dawson
The Enlightenment was supposed to be this dawning of light over the irrational past in the 17th and 18th centuries.
One thing that I found while researching the history of feminism was that the history of feminism was again and again a history of having to point out things that should be obvious.
A core idea in political philosophy since at least the 17th century, if not since antiquity, is that violence is quintessential to the definition of politics and to the State.