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On Political Obligation, book launch

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Book Launch for 'On Political Obligation' by Judith Shklar (John Cowles Professor of Government at Harvard University). Published by Yale University Press and edited and with an introduction by Samantha Ashenden (Birkbeck College, University of London) and Andreas Hess (Sociology, University College Dublin)

The book will be introduced by Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, University of London), and the event will include a wine reception.  The book has received critical acclaim from a number of sources, as noted in the below quotes:

"A new book by Judith Shklar, a quarter century after her death? To their credit, Samantha Ashenden and Andreas Hess found her last set of lectures on political obligation from the Greeks to the present in the archives, and have produced a wonderful edition. Shklar’s admirers can rejoice at the chance to enrol in her unforgettable course."—Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World

"I can hear Dita talking in these lectures—her combination of wisdom and common sense, her impatience with foolishness, and her democratic invitation to students. You too, she says, can know all this if you just work very hard."—Michael Walzer, author of A Foreign Policy for the Left

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