Hill, Lisa

Lisa Hill is Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide. She is a political theorist and intellectual historian who has published extensively on the history of some of the most important ideas in the Western political tradition. Her recent books include Adam Smith’s Pragmatic Liberalism: The Science of Welfare (London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) and The Intellectual History of Political Corruption (London/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, with Bruce Buchan).

Eden Blazejak is a teaching and research assistant at the University of Adelaide. His Honours thesis (for which he was awarded the Tinline Prize) was on the topic “The Hidden Porch: Stoicism in Early Modern Political Thought.”  He is about to submit his Ph.D. thesis entitled: “Epicureanism in the Enlightenment: The Influence of Epicurean Thought on the Western Political Tradition.”