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Arthur Ghins
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Historian of political thought @ulbruxelles.bsky.social.
"The People's Two Powers" coming soon @cambridgeup.bsky.social.
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Arthur Ghins @arthurghins.bsky.social · Jun 6
January 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
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ESHPT-Brill First-Book Manuscript Prize in the History of Political Thought, deadline: 31 Dec. The winner receives €500 at our conference in Naples in Oct 26 & a chance to publish their book in the Brill Series History of European Political & Constitutional Thought europoliticalthought.wordpress.com
Europoliticalthought
Website of the European Society for the History of Political Thought
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November 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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In a new article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social I propose an institution reform to make representative government less oligarchic: having elected politicians held accountable by randomly selected "Constituency Juries"
August 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
arthurghins.bsky.social
Glad to share my latest piece, published in Political Theory, "'The Reading Nation'": Sieyès's Theory of Public Opinion."
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July 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
arthurghins.bsky.social
January 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
June 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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This was such a great session! Thanks again to @raioxford.bsky.sociaitfor hosting us 🙏🏻Read all about it! 📰 👇🏻
oxfordcih.bsky.social Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social · Apr 1
📢 New Blog

Reflections on a recent roundtable by Claire Rydell Arcenas, Emily Jones (@jonesemily.bsky.social), and Glory Liu, on 'Liberalism, Conservatism, and Reception History'

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Liberalism, Conservatism, and Reception History
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April 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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poltheoriewien.bsky.social
The program for the #PREDEF workshop on Forgotten Institutions is now online!

Keynote by Anthoula Malkopoulou & contributions by @arthurghins.bsky.social @drsophiah.bsky.social @simonintheory.bsky.social a.o.

Organised by @saragebh.bsky.social

Details: predef.univie.ac.at/wsforgotteni...
The picture shows the poster for the workshop, including hard facts and program
March 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
CALL FOR PAPERS: Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History. Deadline: 14 March 2025. See below for more details:
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/ptih-graduat...
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
arthurghins.bsky.social
Glad to share my latest piece, "The First Theorists of Liberal Democracy,"
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The First Theorists of Liberal Democracy
Who were the first theorists of liberal democracy? Since the mid-20th century, scholars have attributed this title to figures like Locke, Montesquieu, Kant, Madison, Constant, Tocqueville, Mill, and ...
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March 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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ppfideas.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

For our second episode on the people and ideas behind the French Revolution David talks to historian and biographer Ruth Scurr about the man who came to embody the revolution in all its radicalism and all its terror: Maximilien Robespierre.

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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schnizzl.bsky.social
🚨 Open Position at the University of Vienna 🚨

University Assistant (Postdoc)

📅 Start: June 1, 2025
⏳ Duration: 6 years (fixed-term)
💼 Focus: Political representation, party competition, institutions, & behavior
📌 Deadline: Jan 24, 2025

Join us! 🇦🇹

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December 16, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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Very excited about the lineup for the seminar "Acting Democratically: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Exclusion", organised in cooperation with Malin Grahn-Wilder & project Origins of Racializing Thought @koneensaatio.fi @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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thomascharrayre.bsky.social
Petite satisfaction à utiliser bluesky ici, car je peux directement vous renvoyer à l'excellente review de @arthurghins.bsky.social (qui pointe très bien tous les soucis méthodologique du livre) sans que la visibilité du thread soit affectée !

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Liberalism reinvents itself
Published in Intellectual History Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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December 2, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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tomaashby.bsky.social
I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you!
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November 8, 2024 at 10:44 AM
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oxfordcih.bsky.social
📣JOB | 6-year fixed-term The Clive Holmes Fellowship in History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford | US History Post-1776 with core interests in political, religious, or intellectual history | application deadline: March 14

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February 14, 2024 at 4:32 PM
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chrisbrooke.bsky.social
This is the book that has come out of a terrific set of Carlyle Lectures in 2019, and it sounds as if Richard Whatmore has not been pulling his punches.
The End of Enlightenment by Richard Whatmore review – a warning from 18th-century Britain
In a study with chilling modern resonance, the history don contends that the age of reason was betrayed by the greed, corruption and barbarism of Britain’s ruling elite
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December 22, 2023 at 4:08 PM
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tomaashby.bsky.social
Call for Papers! "On the Joint Practice of Conceptual History and the Study of Political Thought", a Concepta Seminar. Online, 8-9 January 2024. Deadline for proposals: 30 November. See the call / alt-text for more details!
CfP. Concepta Online Seminar: On the Joint Practice of Conceptual History and the Study of Political Thought, 8-9 Jan 2024 This seminar will explore the various linkages imaginable between conceptual history and political thought. It will delve around conditions, means, and ends of the joint practice of conceptual history focused on political thought, and the study of political thought informed by conceptual history. Their association remains a sign of methodological renewal and inspiration that challenges both scholarly practices and their correspondence in academic curricula. The seminar will inquire into the pros and cons of those interdisciplinary options, paying especial attention to their outcomes or consequences. We welcome paper proposals dealing with any of the issues mentioned above. Kindly send your paper proposal (abstract of up to 150 words, with contact details) to the emails of both conveners: José María Rosales (jmrosales@uma.es) & Rosario López (rosariols@uma.es)
October 23, 2023 at 9:34 PM