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These lectures explore cross-cultural political imaginations of the figure of the lawgiver—a figure whose rhetorical invocation is central to politics from the ancient Near East and Mediterranean to the French Revolution and the philosophy of Nietzsche. Through the lens of the lawgiver, the lectures delve into the relationship between ethical formation and law (written or unwritten); the shaping of cultural identity; and different ways in which divine and human authority have been historically understood.
