Browsing by Author "Alexander, James"
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The atheistic metaphysics of cosmopolitanism
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A Conjectural history of Liberalism
(Burnaby B.C.: Simon Fraser University, 2020)I want to argue that liberalism has an essence. I do not want to do this silently, or by taking it for granted, but by stating it plainly. Liberalism has an essence, even though it emerged contingently and perhaps even ... -
Empire as a subject for philosophy (polis, imperium, cosmopolis)
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)In order to consider the question of whether empire is a subject for philosophy, I do three things. I sketch an original typology of three types of state, which I call polis, imperium and cosmopolis, in order to show that ... -
A genealogy of political theory: A polemic
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)Here is a sketch of a genealogy of political theory for the last century. This is a genealogy in Nietzsche’s sense: therefore, neither unhistorical taxonomy, nor a history of political theory as it is written by historians, ... -
The history of political philosophy
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Imitatio Pilati et Christi in modern historical drama
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Radical, sceptical and liberal enlightenment
(Brill, 2020)We still ask the question ‘What is Enlightenment?’ Every generation seems to offer new and contradictory answers to the question. In the last thirty or so years, the most interesting characterisations of Enlightenment ... -
Reaction in politics
(Brill, 2020)Reaction is a subject usually avoided by political theorists, since it raises awkward historical, philosophical and political questions. Perhaps philosophers of history might make better sense of it. In this article I ... -
The relevance of the eighteenth century to modern political theory
(SAGE, 2022)The eighteenth century is still the bottleneck of the history of political theory: the century that separates pre-economic theorists such as Machiavelli, Bodin and Hobbes from post-economic theorists such as Hegel, Mill ... -
Socialism
(Cambridge University Press, 2015)Socialism is one of the three great ideologies of modern times, along with liberalism and conservatism. All three demand that politics should not be founded on tradition, authority, or religion but on reason. However, ... -
Three arguments relevant to the history and theory of monarchy
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-04-15)This article states a claim about the fundamental nature of monarchy as something which in antiquity and medievality straddled the immanent and transcendent worlds but which is only half understood in a modernity where the ... -
Three ideas of the university
(Routledge, 2019)What is a university? In the nineteenth century John Henry Newman famously spoke of “the idea of a university.” This phrase has dominated all discussions of the nature of the university since. Most contemporary writers are ...
