James Martel

Associate Professor

Contact Info:
Office: HSS 260
Office Hours: M 2:30-4pm and by appointment
Phone:(415) 405-2162
Email: jmartel@sfsu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

James Martel is a professor in and the chair of the Department of Political Science. He teaches courses in political theory, continental philosophy and theories of gender and sexuality. He is the author of four book: Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin and the Eschatology of Sovereignty(Routledge/GlassHouse 2011); Textual Conspiracies: Walter Benjamin, Idolatry and Political Theory (Michigan, 2011); Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat (Columbia, 2007); and Love is a Sweet Chain: Desire, Autonomy and Friendship in Liberal Political Theory (Routledge, 2001). He is also co-editor, along with Jimmy Casas Klausen (University of Wisconsin, Madison) of How not to be Governed: Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left (Lexington, 2011). He is also the author of many essays, encyclopedia entries, book chapters and book reviews (for CV, see link above). He is currently working on two new book projects: When Anarchism was Young: Retrieving early 20th Century Spanish Radicalism as a Way of Life and The One and Only Law: Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment.