Dr Graeme Garrard, BA (Hons), MA (Toronto), DPhil (Oxford)
Overview
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Location: Room 1.24, 65-68 Park Place
My principal area of research has been in the Enlightenment and its critics. I have written two single-authored monographs on this subject, as well as several scholarly journal articles and chapters in edited books. I am currently working on a new project called ‘The European Mind in the 20th Century’, which deals with the implications of recent developments in cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary psychology & genetics for the study of politics. I also have interests in French political thought and scepticism in political philosophy.
Selected Publications
Counter-Enlightenments: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (London and New York: Routledge Press, 2006), published in the Routledge monograph series ‘Studies in Social and Political Thought’.
Rousseau’s Counter-Enlightenment: A Republican Critique of the Philosophes (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003), published in the SUNY Press monograph series ‘Social and Political Thought’, ed. Kenneth Barnes.
‘Rousseau, Happiness and Human Nature’, Political Studies (forthcoming)
‘The Status of Happiness’ International Review of Economics (2012)
‘Nietzsche For and Against the Enlightenment’, in Review of Politics, vol. 70, Issue 4 (September 2008), pp.598-608.
Selected Projects
Title: "Counter-Enlightenments: From the 18th Century to the Present”
Sponsor: Arts and Humanities Research Board
Duration: 30/09/2003 - 31/07/2004
Title: "Rousseau’s Counter-Enlightenment: A Republican Critique of the Philosophes"
Sponsor: Leverhulme Trust
Duration: 30/09/1999 - 31/07/2000
Research Units
Political Theory
European Governance, Identity and Public Policy
Publications
Authored books
Counter-Enlightenments: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (London and New York: Routledge Press, 2006), published in the Routledge monograph series ‘Studies in Social and Political Thought’.
Rousseau’s Counter-Enlightenment: A Republican Critique of the Philosophes
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003), published in the SUNY
Press monograph series ‘Social and Political Thought’, ed. Kenneth
Barnes.
Refereed journal articles
‘Nietzsche For and Against the Enlightenment’, in Review of Politics, vol. 70, Issue 4 (September 2008), pp.598-608.
‘The Enlightenment and Its Enemies’, in The American Behavioral Scientist, 49/5 (2006): pp.1 – 17.
‘Isaiah Berlin’s Joseph de Maistre’, in Isaiah Berlin and the Counter-Enlightenment, eds. Robert Wokler and Joseph Mali (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2003).
‘The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Rorty’, Critical Review, 14 (2002): pp.421 – 39.
‘Joseph de Maistre’s Civilization and Its Discontents’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 57 (1996): pp.429-46.
‘Rousseau, Maistre and the Counter-Enlightenment’, History
of Political Thought, 15 (1994): pp.97-120.
Chapters in books
‘Strange Reversals: Isaiah Berlin’s Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment’, in The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin, eds. R. Wokler and G. Crowder. (Prometheus Press, 2007).
‘Joseph de Maistre and Carl Schmitt’, in Joseph de Maistre: Aspects of His Life and Thought, ed. R. A. Lebrun (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001).
Biography
Career profile
I came to Cardiff University in 1994 as a full-time lecturer from Balliol College, Oxford, where I had been a DPhil student (since 1990). I was promoted to Senior Lecturer at Cardiff in 2006. I have also taught at the Central European University, Oxford University, Dartmouth College, Williams College and the American University of Paris, and I teach every summer at Harvard University.
I have been a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (2000) and the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University (2012).I was made a fellow if the Royal Historical Society in 2011. I will be a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University in autumn 2012.
