A
doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science of the
University of California at Berkeley, Jimmy Casas Klausen is
writing chapters of a dissertation on the centrality of
non-European figures in the writings of Montesquieu, Diderot, and
Rousseau. The project, whose working title is "Primitives
Accumulating: Dislocating Pre-Revolutionary French Political
Theory," examines critiques of absolutism in light of French
colonial primitive accumulation. In addition to the place of
maritime expansion in late modern European political thought, his
interests include Marxist theory, Freudian psychoanalysis,
deconstruction, and queer theory.
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A
doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science of the
University of California at Berkeley, Jimmy Casas Klausen is
writing chapters of a dissertation on the centrality of
non-European figures in the writings of Montesquieu, Diderot, and
Rousseau. The project, whose working title is "Primitives
Accumulating: Dislocating Pre-Revolutionary French Political
Theory," examines critiques of absolutism in light of French
colonial primitive accumulation. In addition to the place of
maritime expansion in late modern European political thought, his
interests include Marxist theory, Freudian psychoanalysis,
deconstruction, and queer theory.
