POLIS Academic
Prof John Dunn
Post-graduate supervision interests
Topics related to the indicated research interests, as well as various aspects of the politics and political thought of East Asia, and democracy and revolution.
Undergraduate teaching (course organiser)
Part II Pol 9: A Subject in Modern Politics IV: Revolutions (Lent Term & Easter term)
Selected publications
Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy (London: Atlantic Books, 2005).
The Cunning of Unreason: Making Sense of Politics (London: Harper Collins, 2000).
The History of Political Theory and Other Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Western Political Theory in the Face of the Future, 2nd edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Modern Revolutions: An Introduction to the Analysis of a Political Phenomenon, 2nd edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
The Politics of Socialism: An Essay in Political Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
The Political Thought of John Locke (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969).
Further information
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- E-mail: jmd24@cam.ac.uk
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Research Interests:
Rethinking modern political theory; the historical formation and intellectual weakness of liberal and socialist conceptions of political value and political possibility; explaining the political trajectories of the varieties of modern states; political thought of Locke; the historical development and current significance of democracy in different parts of the world