Johan Tralau
Professor at Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Forskare och lärare
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 37 57
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 622 44 02
- Fax:
- +46 18 471 34 09
- E-mail:
- Johan.Tralau@statsvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA - Available:
- Skytteanum, Valvg. 4
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Biography
Johan Tralau, born 1972, is Professor of Government. His current research interests include the origins of political philosophy in ancient Greece (Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides); the problem of what an interpretation actually interprets; images of saffron and the beginning of time in Greek poetry; and developing a normative theory of courtesy. In 2013, the Swedish Academy awarded him the Johan Lundblad Prize in classical philology and ancient history. A very long time ago, he and his team, the Stockholm Mean Machines, became Swedish champions in American football. In 2018 his most recent book was published, Havets väldiga ryggar. Offret och de flytande bildernas gåta (Lund: Ellerströms). It is about the sea, bathing, waves, bloody sacrifice, the foundations of societies, community, metaphors, Homer, Aeschylus and Euripides. In 2021, he was a conférencier invité at the Collège de France, and in 2022 at the Centro Antropologia del Mondo Antico, Università di Siena.
Publications
Selection of publications
- Murder, Logic, and Embryology (2022)
- Fluid Cypress and Hybrid bodies as a Cognitively Disturbing Metaphor in Euripides’ Cretans (2019)
- Approaching Beginnings: (2018)
- Hesiod, Ouranos, Kronos, and the Emasculation at the Beginning of Time (2018)
- Havets väldiga ryggar (2018)
- Other, Wilder Origins? (2018)
- Der Ursprung der politischen Philosophie (2018)
- Cannibalism, Vegetarianism and the Community of Sacrifice (2017)
- Gobierno subliminal (2016)
- The Justice of the Chimaira (2016)
- Zum Ursprung und Grund der Schönheit (2016)
- Monstret i mig (2015)
- Hobbes’s Hidden Monster (2014)
- Deception, Politics and Aesthetics (2014)
- L’icona del terrore e dell’ambiguità (2013)
- El Leviatán de Hobbes (2013)
- Incest and Liberal Neutrality* (2013)
- Introduksjon til politisk teori (2013)
- Inbjudan till politisk teori (2012)
- Skräck, stat och suveränitet (2012)
- Hobbes Contra Liberty of Conscience (2011)
- Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt (2011)
- Unabhängigkeit als "Furie des Zerstörens" (2010)
- Om statens undergång, Kristus och krokodilens mage (2010)
- Order, the ocean, and Satan (2010)
- Draksådd (2010)
- The revolt of images (2008)
- Familjehemligheter i den liberala staten (2008)
- Den autonoma individen i Hegels rättsfilosofi (2008)
- Nihilismus als Geheimlehre: (2007)
- Leviathan, the Beast of Myth (2007)
- Leviathan, the Beast of Myth: Medusa, Dionysos, and the Riddle of Hobbes's Sovereign Monster (2007)
- The Effaced Self in the Writings of the Young Karl Marx (2005)
- Tragedy as Political Theory (2005)
- Tragedy as Political Theory (2005)
- Menschendämmerung (2005)
- Unterirdische Territorien der Moderne (1997)
Recent publications
- Murder, Logic, and Embryology (2022)
- Kvinnodomstolen (2019)
- Fluid Cypress and Hybrid bodies as a Cognitively Disturbing Metaphor in Euripides’ Cretans (2019)
- Father, Womb, Blood (2019)
- Approaching Beginnings: (2018)
All publications
Articles
- Murder, Logic, and Embryology (2022)
- Kvinnodomstolen (2019)
- Father, Womb, Blood (2019)
- Approaching Beginnings: (2018)
- Hesiod, Ouranos, Kronos, and the Emasculation at the Beginning of Time (2018)
- Other, Wilder Origins? (2018)
- Der Ursprung der politischen Philosophie (2018)
- Cannibalism, Vegetarianism and the Community of Sacrifice (2017)
- Gobierno subliminal (2016)
- The Justice of the Chimaira (2016)
- Zum Ursprung und Grund der Schönheit (2016)
- Hobbes’s Hidden Monster (2014)
- Deception, Politics and Aesthetics (2014)
- L’icona del terrore e dell’ambiguità (2013)
- El Leviatán de Hobbes (2013)
- Incest and Liberal Neutrality* (2013)
- Hobbes Contra Liberty of Conscience (2011)
- Unabhängigkeit als "Furie des Zerstörens" (2010)
- Om statens undergång, Kristus och krokodilens mage (2010)
- Order, the ocean, and Satan (2010)
- Introduction (2010)
- The revolt of images (2008)
- Nihilismus als Geheimlehre: (2007)
- The Effaced Self in the Writings of the Young Karl Marx (2005)
- Tragedy as Political Theory (2005)
- Tragedy as Political Theory (2005)
- The Effaced Self in the Utopia of the Young Karl Marx (2005)
- Unterirdische Territorien der Moderne (1997)
Books
- Havets väldiga ryggar (2018)
- Eranos (2018)
- Vänbok till Jörgen Hermansson (2018)
- Monstret i mig (2015)
- Introduksjon til politisk teori (2013)
- Inbjudan till politisk teori (2012)
- Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt (2011)
- Draksådd (2010)
- Menschendämmerung (2005)
- Menschendämmerung (2005)
Chapters
- Fluid Cypress and Hybrid bodies as a Cognitively Disturbing Metaphor in Euripides’ Cretans (2019)
- A Portrait of the Warrior as a Beast (2016)
- A Portrait of the Warrior as a Beast (2016)
- Skräck, stat och suveränitet (2012)
- Familjehemligheter i den liberala staten (2008)
- Den autonoma individen i Hegels rättsfilosofi (2008)
- Leviathan, the Beast of Myth (2007)
- Leviathan, the Beast of Myth: Medusa, Dionysos, and the Riddle of Hobbes's Sovereign Monster (2007)