Forthcoming: The Trouble with Literature, The Clarendon Lectures in English Literature, Oxford University, fall 2017; Oxford University Press, 2020 Books: The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts (University of Chicago Press, 2014; paperback edition 2016). Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-74 (Princeton University Press, 2004; paperback edition, 2016). [This book won the biennial Book Prize of the West Coast British Studies Association in 2005] Machiavellian Rhetoric: From the Counter-Reformation to Milton (Princeton University Press, 1994) Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance (Cornell University Press, 1985) Edited Volumes and Journal Issues: Early Modern Secularism, special edited issue of Representations 105 (2009) Mimesis East and West, special edited issue of Representations 94 (2006) Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850, co-edited volume of essays with Neil Saccamano and Daniela Coli (Princeton University Press, 2006), including a co-authored introduction. [This volume was the subject of a conference at the Firpo Foundation in Turin, Italy, in the fall of 2007.] Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe, collection of essays co-edited with Lorna Hutson, with a co-authored introduction (Yale University Press, 2001) Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature. A collection of essays on the literary dimension of Machiavelli's work, co-edited with Albert Ascoli (Cornell University Press, 1993) Recent Articles: “Art, Judaism, and the Critique of Fascism in the Work of Ernst Cassirer,” Representations 148 (2019): 114-35 “About Literature,” Know 2 (2017): 237-55 “What Original Sin? Political Theology, the Jewish Question, and the Work of Metaphor,” Telos 178 (2017): 100-120 “Allegory, Poetic Theology, and Enlightenment Aesthetics,” in The Insistence of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy After Early Modernity, ed. Paul Kottman (Fordham, 2017), 31-54 “Petrarch’s Defense of Poetry in the Secretum,” in The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch, ed. Unn Falkied and Albert Ascoli (Cambridge, 2015), 100-110 “Hobbes and the Science of Metaphor,” in Scientific Statesmanship, Governance and the History of Political Philosophy, ed. Kyriakos N. Demetriou and Antis Loizides (Routledge, 2015), 85-100 “Revisiting Agathocles,” Review of Politics 75 (2013): 557-72; partially reprinted in the third Norton Critical Edition of The Prince, ed. Wayne Rebhorn (2018)