The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches intellectual and international history, and an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. A prize-winning writer and teacher, he is the author or editor of eighteen books, among them The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2000), Foundations of Modern International Thought (2016), and Civil Wars: A History in Ideas (2017). He is completing an edition of John Locke's colonial writings for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke.

Teresa M. Bejan is Professor of Political Theory and a Fellow of Oriel College at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration (Harvard, 2017) and First Among Equals: Ideas of Equality and the Demand for Standing (Harvard, forthcoming), as well as many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on themes in political theory and early modern intellectual history. She is the recipient of many awards and fellowships, including the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Politics (2022). Currently, she is editing the Clarendon Edition of Locke's Four Letters on Toleration.

Felix Waldmann is Fellow, Tutor, and Director of Studies, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. He is editing Two Treatises of Government for the Clarendon Edition of the works of John Locke and he is the author of several articles on John Locke's life and writings.