Professor Christopher Brooke

I am working on three main projects: on European union before the European Union, a history of distributive political thought from 1699 to the present, and a general history of political thought in the period 1794-1848. 

Key publications: 

• Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (London: Penguin, 2017).
• [edited, with Elizabeth Frazer] Ideas of Education: Philosophy and Politics from Plato to Dewey (London: Routledge, 2013).
• Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012).

Other publications: 

• ‘Nonintrinsic egalitarianism, from Hobbes to Rousseau’, The Journal of Politics, vol. 82, no. 4, October 2020), pp. 1406-1417.
• ‘Robert Malthus, Rousseauist’, The Historical Journal, vol. 63, no. 1 (February 2020), pp. 15-31.
• ​‘Wollstonecraft and Rousseau’, for The Wollstonecraftian Mind, Sandrine Bergès, Eileen Hunt Botting, and Alan Coffee, eds. (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 161-170.
• ‘Arsehole Aristocracy (or: Montesquieu on honour, revisited)’, European Journal of Political Theory, vol. 17, no. 4 (October 2018), pp. 391-410.
• ‘Eighteenth-century Carthage’, in Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment, Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky, and Richard Whatmore, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2017), pp. 110-24.
• ‘“The porch to a collectivism as absolute as the mind of man has ever conceived”: Rousseau scholarship in Britain, from the Great War to the Cold War’, in Avi Lifschitz, ed., Engaging with Rousseau (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), pp. 136-51.
• ‘Isaiah Berlin and the origins of the “totalitarian” Rousseau’, in Ritchie Robertson and Laurence Brockliss, eds., Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 89-98.
• ‘Rawls on Rousseau and the general will’, in David Lay Williams and James Farr, eds. The General Will: the Evolution of a Concept, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 429-46.
• ‘Introduction’, to Robert Wokler, Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment and their Legacies, Bryan Garsten, ed. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012), pp. ix–xiv.
• [with Josephine Quinn]: ‘“Affection in education”: Edward Carpenter, John Addington Symonds and the politics of Greek love’, Oxford Review of Education, vol. 37, no. 5 (2011), pp. 683–98.
• ‘Rousseau’s Second Discourse, between Epicureanism and Stoicism’, in Rousseau and Freedom, Stanley Hoffmann and Christie MacDonald, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 44–57.
• ‘“Locke en particulier les a traitées exactement dans les mêmes principes que moi”: revisiting the relationship between Locke and Rousseau’, in Locke’s political liberty: readings and misreadings, Christophe Miqueu and Mason Chamie, eds (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, SVEC, 2009:04), pp. 69–82.
• ‘In Roman costume and with Roman phrases: Skinner, Pettit and Hobbes on republican liberty’, Hobbes Studies, vol. 22 (2009), pp. 178–84.
• ‘Grotius, Stoicism and Oikeiosis’, in 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.
• ‘Rousseau’s political philosophy: Stoic and Augustinian origins’ in Patrick Riley, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 94–123.