POLIS Academic
Dr Christopher Brooke
Lecturer in Political Theory / History of Political Thought
Fellow of King’s College
I have a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford, and an AM and PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. Before coming to Cambridge, I was a Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Magdalen College, Oxford, and, most recently, the Isaiah Berlin Research Fellow in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford and a Research Fellow at Balliol.
I co-convene the Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminar Series 1.
Teaching
Lectures:
Pol 6: Marxism from Engels to the Frankfurt School
Pol 6: Distributive Justice from Mill to Rawls
Pol 6: Patriotism, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism
Pol 6: The Democratic State and the Idea of a European Union
I also supervise on a variety of other undergraduate and graduate papers.
Selected Publications
Book
Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and the Politics of Self-Love from Lipsius to Rousseau (forthcoming)
Articles, etc
'Rousseau’s Second Discourse, between Epicureanism and Stoicism', in Stanley Hoffmann and Christie MacDonald, eds., Rousseau and Freedom (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, Spring 2010), pp. 44-57.
'In Roman costume and with Roman phrases: Skinner, Pettit and Hobbes on republican liberty’, Hobbes Studies, vol. 22 (2009), pp. 178-84.
'"Locke en particulier les a traitées exactement dans les mêmes principes que moi": revisiting the relationship between Locke and Rousseau', in Christophe Miqueu and Mason Chamie, eds., Locke’s Political Liberty: Readings and Misreadings (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, SVEC, 2009:04), pp. 69-82.
'Grotius, Stoicism and Oikeiosis', Grotiana, vol. 29 (2008), pp. 25-50.
'Aux limites de la volonté générale: silence, exil, ruse et désobéissance dans la pensée politique de Rousseau', Les études philosophiques, 2007-4 (octobre), pp. 425-44.
'Light from the Fens?', New Left Review, 2.44 (March-April 2007), pp. 151-60.
'How the Stoics became atheists', The Historical Journal, vol. 49, no. 2 (June 2006), pp. 387-402.
'Stoicism and anti-Stoicism in the seventeenth century', Grotiana, vol. 22/23 (2001/2002), pp. 93-116; also published as Hans W. Blom and Laurens C. Winkel, eds., Grotius and the Stoa, (Assen: Van Gorcum, 2004).
'Rousseau’s political philosophy: Stoic and Augustinian origins', in Patrick Riley, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 94-123.
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- E-mail: cb632@cam.ac.uk
- Tel: 01223 (3)31433
- Address:
King's College
Cambridge
CB2 1ST
Research Interests:
Stoicism in modern European political thought; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; eighteenth-century political philosophy; politics and education; the history of egalitarianism and distributive justice.