Ian Tregenza

Ian Tregenza has research interests in political theory, the history of political thought and religion and politics. His PhD (UNSW 1996) was on the political philosopher Michael Oakeshott, focusing on Oakeshott’s engagement with the thought of the 17^th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes. A revised version was published as Michael Oakeshott on Hobbes: A Study in the Renewal of Philosophical Ideas (Imprint Academic, 2003). Though a study of the relationship between two philosophers it was concerned with broad hermeneutical questions concerning the way that philosophers interpret and use the past. Subsequently Ian’s work has covered aspects of Australian intellectual and political history, with a particular focus on the intersection of religion and politics and the forms of Australian secularism. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in the area and is the co-author of Reason, Religion and the Australian Polity: A Secular State? (Routledge, 2019).

POIR2060 Modern Political Thought

POIR3050 Religion and Politics