Erica Benner (born 11 August 1962) is a British political philosopher. Born in Tokyo and grew up in Japan and the United Kingdom, she held academic posts at St Antony's College, Oxford, the London School of Economics, and Yale University. She was awarded a DPhil by Oxford in 1993. She is the author of the books Really Existing Nationalisms (Oxford University Press, 1995), Machiavelli's Ethics (Princeton University Press, 2009), Machiavelli's Prince: A New Reading (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom (Penguin Allen Lane, 2017).[1] Be Like the Fox was described by Terry Eagleton as "lively, compulsively readable biography",[2] chosen by Julian Baggini as one of his picks for The Guardian's best books of 2017 list,[3] and shortlisted for the 2018 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.[4] In 2024, her latest book, Adventures in Democracy, was published.[5]
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- ^ "Academic". Erica Benner. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
- ^ "Be Like a Fox by Erica Benner review – was Machiavelli really not Machiavellian?". The Guardian. 15 March 2018.
- ^ "Best books of 2017 – part two". The Guardian. 26 November 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
- ^ "2018 Shortlist". Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. 5 April 2018. Archived from the original on 20 July 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
- ^ Hoyer, Katja (1 February 2024). "Adventures in Democracy by Erica Benner review – many men, many minds". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 26 April 2024.
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