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Political Thought and Intellectual History. Posting from the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought. https://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk
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On Pompey's Bonapartism according to Montesquieu.
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On Pompey's Bonapartism according to Montesquieu.
As regular readers know, I follow Benjamin Constant in treating Cromwell and Napoleon as the first ‘Bonapartists,’ that is, the usurpers of democracy through democratic means.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
On Pompey's Bonapartism according to Montesquieu.
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Join us tomorrow!
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Join us tomorrow!
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In my little corner of the academic world Larry Summers soiled himself many years ago when he vetoed the appointment of István Hont to a tenured post at Harvard. #nemesis
November 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
In my little corner of the academic world Larry Summers soiled himself many years ago when he vetoed the appointment of István Hont to a tenured post at Harvard. #nemesis
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Visiting Cambridge next week and, as in the old joke about my lectures, muttering about Augustine and death.
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Visiting Cambridge next week and, as in the old joke about my lectures, muttering about Augustine and death.
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Call for Papers: "The World in 1776/2026." 250 years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations blasted monopolists, mercantilists and enslavers as the scourges of a free society, what light can his ideas shed on the world today?
Abstracts due December 15th. Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Abstracts due December 15th. Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The World in 1776/2026: The Wealth of Nations at 250
The World in 1776/2026: The Wealth of Nations at 250 Conveners: Maha Rafi Atal and Craig Smith, University of Glasgow The University of Glasgow and the British Academy invite submissions to "The Worl...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Call for Papers: "The World in 1776/2026." 250 years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations blasted monopolists, mercantilists and enslavers as the scourges of a free society, what light can his ideas shed on the world today?
Abstracts due December 15th. Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Abstracts due December 15th. Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Out today (in USA)
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Liberal Worlds
The intellectual biography of a Victorian Liberal polymath
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November 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Out today (in USA)
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On Imperial Boomerangs in Montesquieu
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On Imperial Boomerangs in Montesquieu
One of the joys of blogging is meeting distinguished and young scholars at conferences who confide to me that they are regular, even daily readers of these digressions. They swell my head in the most ...
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November 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
On Imperial Boomerangs in Montesquieu
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Next week! Join @jacobtlevy.bsky.social’s talk at Jesus College, Cambridge.
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Next week! Join @jacobtlevy.bsky.social’s talk at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Tom Arnold-Foster (Oxford) replies to Anton Jäger (also Oxford) on the political theory of the American Populists at the #MondaySeminar #Neo-RomanCounter-Revisionism
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Tom Arnold-Foster (Oxford) replies to Anton Jäger (also Oxford) on the political theory of the American Populists at the #MondaySeminar #Neo-RomanCounter-Revisionism
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On Smith and Montesquieu and that sleeping Sentinel (with a touch of Machiavelli)
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On Smith and Montesquieu and that sleeping Sentinel (with a touch of Machiavelli)
In chapter 13 of his (1734) Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline, Montesquieu notes that Roman military imperial decline is, in part, caused by a change of und...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
On Smith and Montesquieu and that sleeping Sentinel (with a touch of Machiavelli)
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Foucault's Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/16/f... - building on earlier work, and discussing a couple of other bits of evidence about the changing nature of Foucault's plans for this series from the mid-1970s until his 1984 death
Foucault’s Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality
Some years ago, Philippe Chevallier alerted me to the importance of the 1977 German translation of the first volume of Foucault’s History of Sexuality as Sexualität und Wahrheit: Der Wille zum Wiss…
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November 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Foucault's Multiple Plans for his History of Sexuality progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/16/f... - building on earlier work, and discussing a couple of other bits of evidence about the changing nature of Foucault's plans for this series from the mid-1970s until his 1984 death
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Congratulations to Dr Marc Palen @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social, following the award of the Elise M. Boulding Prize in Peace History to his book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Princeton University Press, 2024).
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Peace History Society
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November 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Congratulations to Dr Marc Palen @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social, following the award of the Elise M. Boulding Prize in Peace History to his book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Princeton University Press, 2024).
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peacehistorysociety.org/phs2025/awards.php
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Join us next Friday 21 for a roundtable on John McCormick's excellent new book The People's Princes at King's College London w/ comments by David Wootton (York), Lawrence Hamilton (Cambridge) & myself. There will be wine & great conversation on leadership & politics
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November 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Join us next Friday 21 for a roundtable on John McCormick's excellent new book The People's Princes at King's College London w/ comments by David Wootton (York), Lawrence Hamilton (Cambridge) & myself. There will be wine & great conversation on leadership & politics
Register here
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Register here
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Congratulations to @brunoleipold.com, whose book #Citizen #Marx has been awarded the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize which is given "for a book which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition".
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The Deutscher Memorial Prize
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November 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Congratulations to @brunoleipold.com, whose book #Citizen #Marx has been awarded the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize which is given "for a book which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition".
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On Montesquieu and the enemies of truth.
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On Montesquieu and the enemies of truth.
During the last 24hrs my review of Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason by Katherine Brading and Marius Stan (Oxford University Press, 2024) appeared at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (here)...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
On Montesquieu and the enemies of truth.
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Deme Kasimis responds to Paul Sagar's paper, "The Macedonianism of Fear: Aristotle vs Rawls" here at the #MondaySeminar.
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Deme Kasimis responds to Paul Sagar's paper, "The Macedonianism of Fear: Aristotle vs Rawls" here at the #MondaySeminar.
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Now online! Laura André Lombard (Université Panthéon Assas) reviews "The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots: A Proponent of Cosmopolitan Republicanism in the French Revolution (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2023) by @fepoulsen.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Now online! Laura André Lombard (Université Panthéon Assas) reviews "The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots: A Proponent of Cosmopolitan Republicanism in the French Revolution (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2023) by @fepoulsen.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Nathaniel Boyd (York) introduces his paper on "Hegel & German public law" as his commentator, Chris Meckstroth, makes notes. #MondaySeminar
November 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Nathaniel Boyd (York) introduces his paper on "Hegel & German public law" as his commentator, Chris Meckstroth, makes notes. #MondaySeminar
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A request - does anyone have access to the original 1977 German translation of Foucault's History of Sexuality Vol 1 - Der Wille zum Wissen, Sexualität und Wahrheit? I'd really appreciate a copy of the Vorwort zur deutschen Ausgabe. It has to be the 1st edition (and not the various translations).
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A request - does anyone have access to the original 1977 German translation of Foucault's History of Sexuality Vol 1 - Der Wille zum Wissen, Sexualität und Wahrheit? I'd really appreciate a copy of the Vorwort zur deutschen Ausgabe. It has to be the 1st edition (and not the various translations).
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On Our Post-Constitutional Moment, PT 5; Some Wilson; some Ostrom, and the Threat of Despotism
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On Our Post-Constitutional Moment, PT 5; Some Wilson; some Ostrom, and the Threat of Despotism
This is probably the final blog post of the week because I’ll in Houston for a talk:
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October 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
On Our Post-Constitutional Moment, PT 5; Some Wilson; some Ostrom, and the Threat of Despotism
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Hugo Drochon *so* enjoyed speaking at the #MondaySeminar on, um, Monday that he has joined BlueSky and everything: @hdrochon.bsky.social.
October 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hugo Drochon *so* enjoyed speaking at the #MondaySeminar on, um, Monday that he has joined BlueSky and everything: @hdrochon.bsky.social.
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On Lippmann and Oakeshott on the art of governing well; with some Bergson and Foucault thrown in
Shout out to @jcherniss.bsky.social
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Shout out to @jcherniss.bsky.social
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On Lippmann and Oakeshott on the art of governing well; with some Bergson and Foucault thrown in
Walter Lippmann’s final major book is The Public Philosophy (which was originally published in 1955 as Essays in the Public Philosophy. My page numbers and chapter numbers are to the Transactions edit...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
On Lippmann and Oakeshott on the art of governing well; with some Bergson and Foucault thrown in
Shout out to @jcherniss.bsky.social
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Shout out to @jcherniss.bsky.social
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At the University of Milan, lecture series on the “Annales school”, from November 2025 to March 2026, with great speakers such as Müller, Rubin, Calafat, Burke and Abulafia! @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @historysorbonne.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
At the University of Milan, lecture series on the “Annales school”, from November 2025 to March 2026, with great speakers such as Müller, Rubin, Calafat, Burke and Abulafia! @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @historysorbonne.bsky.social
Neapolitans!
October 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Neapolitans!
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A happy change: my article on Rousseau’s three general wills is now open access at the Review of Politics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
A happy change: my article on Rousseau’s three general wills is now open access at the Review of Politics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...