Andreas Hess (Frankfurt, 1955) is a professor of social and political thought at University College Dublin, a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and a Faculty Fellow at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. He holds a degree in social sciences from Mercator University Duisburg and a Ph.D. in social sciences from the Free University of Berlin. He has taught at the University of Sussex in the Department of English and American Studies and the Department of Social Sciences, and at the University of Wales in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy. He has received various awards, including the University College Dublin President’s Research Award. He is the author of The Political Thought of Judith N. Shklar: Exile from Exile (2014) and Tocqueville and Beaumont: Aristocratic Liberalism in Democratic Times (2018). He is also the editor (along with Samantha Ashenden) of Judith Shklar’s final lectures, On Political Obligation (2019), and the collection of essays Between Utopia and Realism: The Political Thought of Judith N. Shklar (2019).