Political Science Faculty
Ryan Patrick Hanley
Professor
Ryan Patrick Hanley
Contact
McGuinn Hall 429
Telephone: 617-552-3825
Email: ryan.hanley@bc.edu
Education
- B.A. (Honors), University of Pennsylvania
- M.Phil., University of Cambridge
- Ph.D., University of Chicago
Courses
Enlightenment Political Theory
Adam Smith
Politics and Literature
Expertise
- Political Philosophy
Department
Biography
Ryan Patrick Hanley is Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Prior to joining the faculty at Boston College, he was the Mellon Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, and held visiting appointments or fellowships at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Chicago. A specialist on the political philosophy of the Enlightenment period, he is the author of Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge, 2009) and Love's Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity (Cambridge, 2017), and Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life (Princeton, 2019).听 His most recent projects include The Political Philosophy of F茅nelon, and a companion translation volume, F茅nelon: Moral and Political Writings, both of which will be published by Oxford in 2020.
Publications
The Political Philosophy of F茅nelon听(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
Translator and Editor,听F茅nelon: Moral and Political Writings听(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life听(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019).
鈥淭he Human Good and the Science of Man,鈥澨�History of European Ideas听(蹿辞谤迟丑肠辞尘颈苍驳).
鈥淭ocqueville and the Philosophy of the Enlightenment,鈥澨�Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America, ed.听Richard Boyd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
鈥淒istance Learning: The Political Education of Montesquieu鈥檚听Persian Letters,鈥澨�Review of Politics听83 (2021): 533-54.
鈥溾�楾he Happiest and Most Honourable Period of My Life鈥�: Adam Smith鈥檚 Service to the University of Glasgow,鈥� in听The Scottish Enlightenment: Human Nature, Social Theory, and Moral Philosophy, ed. Robin Mills and Craig听Smith (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2021), 115-131.
鈥淟鈥櫭ヾucation du prince selon F茅nelon : de l鈥檃mour-propre 脿 la justice,鈥澨�Revue fran莽aise d'histoire des id茅es听politiques听53 (2021): 113-24.
鈥淛ustice and Politics in the听Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals,鈥� in听Hume鈥檚 鈥楨nquiry Concerning the听Principles of Morals鈥�: A Critical Guide, ed. Wim Lemmens and Esther Kroeker (Cambridge: Cambridge听University Press, 2021), 53-71.
鈥淩ousseau鈥檚 Three Revolutions,鈥澨�European Journal of Philosophy听29 (2021): 105-119.
鈥淩eply to My Critics鈥� (part of symposium on听The Political Philosophy of F茅nelon听补苍诲听F茅nelon: Moral and Political听Writings),听European Journal of Political Theory听20 (2021): 599-604.
鈥淢agnanimity and Modernity: Greatness of Soul and Greatness of Mind in the Enlightenment,鈥� in听The Measure of听Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity, ed. Sophia Vasalou (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 176-96.
鈥淔茅nelon and Rousseau,鈥� in听The Rousseauian Mind, ed. Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly (London: Routledge, 2019), 87-97.
鈥淚saiah Berlin on the Nature and Purpose of the History of Ideas,鈥� in听Cambridge Companion to Isaiah听Berlin, ed. Joshua Cherniss and Steven B. Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 81-96.
鈥淪mith, Rousseau, and Kant on Learning to Become Just,鈥� in听Justice, ed. Mark LeBar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 39-66.
鈥淔reedom and Enlightenment,鈥� in听Oxford Handbook of Freedom, ed. David Schmidtz and Carmen Pavel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 223-38.
鈥淩ethinking Kant鈥檚 Debts to Rousseau,鈥澨�Archiv f眉r Geschichte der Philosophie听99 (2017): 380-404.
鈥淧racticing PPE: The Case of Adam Smith,鈥澨�Social Philosophy and Policy听34 (2017): 277-295.
Love鈥檚 Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).听
Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).