Luc Foisneau

Luc Foisneau is a Director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), presently associated to the Centre Raymond Aron (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), in Paris. He has been Visiting research associate at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, between 2003 and 2006. He has been awarded, in 2001, a Prize by the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris for his "Hobbes et la toute-puissance de Dieu" (Paris, 2000) and...See more

Luc Foisneau is a Director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), presently associated to the Centre Raymond Aron (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), in Paris. He has been Visiting research associate at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, between 2003 and 2006. He has been awarded, in 2001, a Prize by the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris for his "Hobbes et la toute-puissance de Dieu" (Paris, 2000) and has co-edited, among other volumes, "Leviathan after 350 years" (Oxford University Press, 2003). His research develops in the field of the history of political thought in 17th Century and 20th Century with a particular interest in the theories of sovereignty and their critiques. See less