Erica Benner (born 11 August 1962) is a British

political philosopher Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

. Born in Tokyo and raised in Japan and the United Kingdom, she held academic posts at

St Antony's College, Oxford St Antony's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's specialises in international relations, economic ...

, the London School of Economics, and Yale University. She was awarded a DPhil by Oxford University in 1993. She is the author of the books ''Really Existing Nationalisms'' (Oxford University Press, 1995), ''Machiavelli's Ethics'' (Princeton University Press, 2009), ''Machiavelli's Prince: A New Reading'' (Oxford University Press, 2013) and ''Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom'' (Penguin Allen Lane, 2017). ''Be Like the Fox'' was described by Terry Eagleton as "lively, compulsively readable biography", chosen by Julian Baggini as one of his picks for ''The Guardian''s best books of 2017 list, and shortlisted for the 2018

Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography was established in 2003 in memory of Elizabeth Longford (1906-2002), the British author, biographer and historian. The £5,000 prize is awarded annually for a historical biography published in t ...

. In 2024, Benner's latest book, ''Adventures in Democracy'', was published.

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* 1962 births Academics of the London School of Economics Alumni of the University of Oxford Fellows of St Antony's College, Oxford Living people Political philosophers Yale University fellows {{UK-philosopher-stub