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Samuel Pufendorf on multiple monarchy and composite kingdoms (2023)
Journal Article
Holland, B. (in press). Samuel Pufendorf on multiple monarchy and composite kingdoms. History of European Ideas, https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2023.2233060

This article expounds Samuel von Pufendorf’s evolving theory of multiple monarchy, from the publication of his early work on the form of the Holy Roman Empire, through his natural jurisprudence, to his historical accounts of European statesmanship. A... Read More about Samuel Pufendorf on multiple monarchy and composite kingdoms.

Of Substance, Signs and the State: A New Reading of St Augustine's Definition of the Republic (2023)
Journal Article
Holland, B. (2023). Of Substance, Signs and the State: A New Reading of St Augustine's Definition of the Republic. History of Political Thought, 44(2), 234-258(25)

This article provides a new interpretation of St. Augustine’s concept of res publica, situating his political philosophy in terms of the distinction between res and signum, substance and sign, which runs across his work. The res of res publica is its... Read More about Of Substance, Signs and the State: A New Reading of St Augustine's Definition of the Republic.

Sovereignty Contested Vattel’s Use of Leibniz, Hobbes, and Pufendorf (2021)
Book Chapter
Holland, B. (2021). Sovereignty Contested Vattel’s Use of Leibniz, Hobbes, and Pufendorf. In P. Schröder (Ed.), Concepts and Contexts of Vattel's Political and Legal Thought (45-63). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108784009.004

In this chapter, I draw out some implications of Vattel’s description of sovereign states as moral persons. The first section outlines the state-personality tradition from Thomas Hobbes through Samuel Pufendorf, with whom the moral person locution or... Read More about Sovereignty Contested Vattel’s Use of Leibniz, Hobbes, and Pufendorf.

Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine (2020)
Book
Holland, B. (2020). Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19333-1

Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine provides a detailed exegesis of the analogy between the self (as body and soul, always in relation to other such beings) and the city (or political society) in the thought of St. Augustine of Hippo (354... Read More about Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine.

The moral person of the state: Pufendorf, sovereignty and composite polities (2017)
Book
Holland, B. (2017). The moral person of the state: Pufendorf, sovereignty and composite polities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108242127

The Perpetual Peace Puzzle: Kant on persons and states (2016)
Journal Article
Holland, B. (2017). The Perpetual Peace Puzzle: Kant on persons and states. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 43(6), 599-620. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453716680128

Kant described the state as a ‘moral person’, and did so when dealing with international relations. For all the interest in his contribution to the theory of global politics, the locution according to which Kant characterized the state has received v... Read More about The Perpetual Peace Puzzle: Kant on persons and states.