Arthur Ghins
@ArthurGhins
Historian of political thought @ULBruxelles. "The People's Two Powers" coming Jan. 2026 @cambUP_History
Just out @PoliticalTheory journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…
This will be fantastic by Arthur Ghins--one of the best there is on the history of liberal thought in France: "The People's Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy": cambridge.org/core/books/peo…
📢 We're hiring a Post-Doc in Critical Democracy @AUParis for the 2025-2026 academic year! Join our Horizon-Europe project on resilient social contracts + help launch a “Law, State & Democracy” initiative. 🗓 Apply by Sept 1, 2025 👉 [email protected] #Postdoc #AcademicJobs #Law
From MIH Archives: Pragmatic utopianism and race? @DrDuncanBell analyzes H.G. Wells’ role as a pragmatist social thinker by focusing on his assault on prevailing theories of race and the reception of his work in the North Atlantic in the early 20th century bit.ly/453otes
How have politicians been imagined, criticised or idealised across modern European history? We tackled this question in The Figure of the Politician in Modern and Contemporary Europe. Finally materialising, out December 2025! @BerghahnHistory berghahnbooks.com/title/Ihalaine…
🔊 Episode #1 out now! Intellectual Historian Richard Whatmore (University of St Andrews) explains why the Enlightenment, 18th century republicanism and the history of free states matter for today’s global politics. Listen and subscribe on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!
What a fine day this is to be able to share my first, finished copy of my new book, The Second Emancipation, pre-orders available, out in August.
A couple of years and a @LeverhulmeTrust research fellowship in the making, I am excited to see that my book on post-liberalism is now available to pre-order. amzn.eu/d/aaU5L2S
I reviewed Quentin Skinner’s new one thenation.com/article/archiv…
On 17/06 Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and I organize a book workshop on @BrunoLeipold's 'Citizen Marx' at the Institute of Philosophy in Leuven. Of interest to those within the Benelux working on republicanism and Marxism. Email me: [email protected] hiw.kuleuven.be/ripple/events/…
Giving a talk alongside a bunch of great people at ULB next month
Political theory/philosophy job at our Department! Deadline 26 May. Happy to answer questions by email. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/a…
Wonderful to see Paul Kelly’s book and my own on post-liberalism in Polity’s 2025 catalogue. Really looking forward to it coming out (though not wishing away the summer). @politybooks @PatrickDeneen @SohrabAhmari @MattPolProf @alex_usyd @kvallier
Greg Conti: “In what sense did liberalism abandon morality in the previous century?” journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…
Liberalism is in crisis, or so we often hear. But this isn't the first time. My latest in @AJPS_Editor investigates the Nobel economist F.A. Hayek's response to the interwar crisis of liberalism via his interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville. 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
Keith Michael Baker - Jean-Paul Marat Prophet of Terror À paraître en novembre aux UCP
📢 New Blog Reflections on a recent roundtable by Claire Rydell Arcenas, Emily Jones (@EmilyJonesVIII), and Glory Liu (@miss_glory), on 'Liberalism, Conservatism, and Reception History' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/roundt…
For those interested in the intersection of Admin Law and Democracy & are @YaleLawSch on March 28: Stephen Sawyer (@AUParis @EuropeAtHarvard) will be launching his new book “Demos Rising” (UCP, 2025) at the Yale European Law Association @ela_yls. Commentary by @susanroseackerm