Welcome to the Home Page of Political Thought in Cambridge.
Through the links on this page you will find information on a wide range of activities in the History of Political Thought, Political Theory, and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge and beyond. These include the weekly seminar, individual lectures and conferences, and our graduate and undergraduate courses; you can also access the websites of the Faculty of History and the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge.
Cambridge is a world-leading centre for the study of the History of Political Thought. Many of the subject’s finest practitioners have studied and taught here, among them John Dunn, Duncan Forbes, Peter Laslett, John Pocock, Quentin Skinner, Gareth Stedman Jones and Richard Tuck. Through their research and teaching, the present generation of Cambridge scholars constantly takes the subject forward in new directions, reinforced by a large and lively community of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.
- New Books by Cambridge Scholars
- Christopher Brooke, Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau (Princeton University Press, 2012)
- Chris Bayly, Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
- Ideas in Context Series, no. 100.
- Events
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The J.R. Seeley Lectures 2012
Richard Tuck (Harvard University)
The Sleeping Sovereign
Thursday 10 May: Jean Bodin
Tuesday 15 May: Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf
Thursday 17 May: The Eighteenth Century
Tuesday 22 May: The United States
All lectures at 5pm in the Runcie lecture theatre, the Faculty of Divinity, Sidgwick Site. - Upcoming seminars
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Mon 21 May 2012
The rights of sovereignty in early modern political thought
Daniel Lee (University of Toronto)
Mon 28 May 2012
The power of persuasion in Plato
Jill Frank (University of South Carolina)
- Quick links
- Individuals at Cambridge
- Cambridge Graduate Studies in Political Thought and Intellectual History
- Faculty of History
- Political Thought Research Group (POLIS)
- Graduate Admissions in the History of Political Thought
- Cambridge Books in the History of Ideas
- Cambridge Texts in Political Thought