Professor Bruce Haddock
Overview
Position:
Senior
Professor of Modern European Social and Political Philosophy
Email:
HaddockBA@cardiff.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)29 2087 4881
Fax: +44(0)29 2087 4946
Extension: 74881
Location: Room 2.15, 65-68 Park Place
I was educated at Leicester University and Wolfson College, Oxford. I worked for many years at University of Wales, Swansea, before coming to Cardiff in 2001. I have held visiting appointments at the University of Ferrara, Emory University and Arizona State University.
My interests range from political philosophy and history of political thought, through modern European federal theory, to contemporary politics and culture in Italy and Romania. I am involved in a major collaborative project (based here at Cardiff) exploring contrasting modes of justification invoked in normative argument. I am also currently completing a book provisionally entitled Philosophical Liberalism: A Defence of Weak Foundations.
My teaching focuses largely on history of political thought and normative political philosophy.
My principal publications include An Introduction to Historical Thought (1980), Vico’s Political Thought (1986), A History of Political Thought: 1789 to the Present (2005), The Politics of Italian National Identity (2000, jointly edited with Gino Bedani), Multiculturalism, Identity and Rights (2003, jointly edited with Peter Sutch), Principles and Political Order: The Challenge of Diversity (2006, jointly edited with Peri Roberts and Peter Sutch), in addition to numerous essays and articles in collaborative volumes and journals, including Political Theory, Political Studies, History of Political Thought, The Historical Journal, Journal of the History of Ideas, European Journal of Political Theory, European Studies Review and Social Research. A History of Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Present is due to be published in 2008. I am also joint editor of Collingwood and British Idealism Studies and associate editor of the European Journal of Political Theory.
Research Unit
Publications
Books
An Introduction to Historical Thought (London 1980), pp. 184; translated as Uma Introdocao ao Pensamento Historico (Lisbon, 1989), pp. 237; Chinese translation 1984.
Vico's Political Thought (Swansea, 1986) pp. 238.
A History of Political Thought: 1789 to the Present (Cambridge, 2005), pp. 184.
Joint ed., The Politics of Italian National Identity (Cardiff, 2000), pp. 296.
Joint ed., Multiculturalism, Identity and Rights (London, 2003), pp. 236.
Joint ed., Principles and Political Order: The Challenge of Diversity (London, 2006), pp. 218.
A History of Political Thought: From Antiquity to the Present (Cambridge: Polity, 2008).
Chapters and articles
"The History of Ideas and the Study of Politics", Political Theory 2 (1974), pp. 420-431.
"Vico: The Problem of Interpretation", Social Research 43 (1976), pp 535-552; reprinted in G.
Tagliacozzo, M. Mooney and D. P. Verene (eds.) Vico and Contemporary Thought (Atlantic
Highlands, J.J., 1979), pp. 145-162.
"Vico and the Problem of Historical Reconstruction", Social Research 43 (1976), pp. 512-519;
reprinted in G. Tagliacozzo, M. Mooney and D. P. Verene (eds.), Vico and Contemporary
Thought (Atlantic Highlands, J.J., 1979), pp. 122-129.
"Vico and Anachronism", Political Studies XXIV (1976), pp. 483-487.
"Vico on Political Wisdom", European Studies Review 8 (1978), pp. 165-191.
"Vico's `Discovery of the True Homer': A Case Study in Historical Reconstruction", Journal of
the History of Ideas XL (1979), pp. 583-602.
"Vico and the Methodology of the History of Ideas", in G. Tagliacozzo (ed.), Vico: Past and
Present (Atlantic Highlands N.J., 1981), pp. 227-239.
"Vico and the Crisis of Marxism", in G. Tagliacozzo (ed.), Vico and Marx: Affinities and
Contrasts (Atlantic Highlands, J.J., 1983), pp. 352-366.
"Pareto", in Adam and Jessica Kuper (eds.), The Social Science Encyclopaedia (London, 1985),
pp. 571-572.
"Augustine's City of God" in M. Forsyth and M. Keens-Soper (eds.), A Guide to the Political
Classics (Oxford, 1988), pp. 69-95.
"Vico", in J. Cannon et al (eds.) The Blackwell Dictionary of Historians (Oxford, 1988), pp.
432-434.
"Shifting Patterns of Political Thought and Action: Liberalism, Nationalism, Socialism", in B
Waller (ed.), Themes in European History, 1830-90 (London, 1990), pp. 213-231.
"Italy: Independence and Unification without Power", in B. Waller (ed.), Themes in European
History, 1930-90 (London, 1990), pp. 67-98.
"Din istoria gîndirii istorice: zorii modernitatii", Analele Universitatii din Timi_oara IV (1992),
pp. 109-115.
"Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Philosophy of Right", in Murray Forsyth, Maurice Keens-Soper and John Hoffman, eds., The Political Classics: Hamilton to Mill (Oxford, 1993), pp. 104-136.
"Liberalism", in Gilbert Pleuger, ed., The Good History Students' Handbook (Bedford, 1993),
pp. 120-122.
"Socialism", in ibid., pp. 122-125.
"Communism", in ibid., pp. 131-133.
"Nationalism", in ibid., pp. 141-143.
"The Political Lessons of Italian Unification", in E. Semanis and L. Paegle, eds., Cela uz demokratiju: Latvija un pasaules pieredze/The Transition towards Democracy: Experience in Latvia and in the World (Riga, 1994), pp. 23-33.
"Hegel's Critique of the Theory of Social Contract", in D. Boucher and P. Kelly, eds., The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (London, 1994), pp. 147-63.
"Critical and Speculative Philosophy of History Reconsidered", Collingwood Studies 1 (1994), pp. 76-85.
"Socialism", New Perspective 1 (1995), pp. 20-1.
"Vico, Collingwood and the Character of an Historical Philosophy", in D. Boucher, J. Connelly and T. Madood (eds.) Philosophy, History and Civilization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on R. G. Collingwood (Cardiff, 1995), pp. 130-151.
"The Crisis of the Italian State", in R. Bideleux and R. Taylor, eds., European Integration and Disintegration: East and West (London, 1996), pp. 111-126.
"Oakeshott's Rationalism in Politics", in M. Forsyth and M. Keens-Soper, eds., The Political Classics: Green to Dworkin (Oxford, 1996), pp. 100-120.
"Vico's Significance in the History of Historical Thought", Annales universitatis occidentalis timisiensis IX (1997), pp. 26-9.
“The Philosophical Significance of Vico’s Autobiography”, The Italianist, supplement, no. 17 (1997), pp. 23-33.
"Political Union without Social Revolution: Vincenzo Gioberti's Primato", The Historical Journal 41 (1998), pp. 705-723.
“State and Nation in Mazzini’s Political Thought”, History of Political Thought XX (1999), pp. 313-36.
“Collingwood, Croce and the Characterization of Historical Knowledge”, in A. Quarta and P. Pellegrino, eds., Humanitas: Studi in memoria di Antonio Verri (Lecce, 1999), vol. 1, pp. 355-68.
“Vico and the Limits of Political Philosophy”, in Franco Ratto, ed., All’ombra di Vico (Rome, 1999), pp. 271-9.
“Nationalism and Civil Society in Romania”, Political Studies 47 (1999), pp. 256-74 (with Ovidiu Caraiani).
“In confruntare cu colectivismul: Nationalism si societate civila in Romania”, Polis 5 (1998), pp. 52-71 (with Ovidiu Caraiani).
“A Vichian Defence of Ideal Eternal History”, in F. Ratto, ed., Il mondo di Vico/Vico nel mondo (Perugia, 2000), pp. 219-30.
“State, Nation and Risorgimento”, in G. Bedani and B. Haddock, eds., The Politics of Italian National Identity Cardiff, 2000), pp. 11-49.
“Introduction”, in ibid., pp. 1-10 (with Gino Bedani).
“Concluding Reflections: Italy, Europe and Multiform Identities”, in ibid., pp. 277-85 (with Gino Bedani).
“Liberalism and Contingency”, in Mark Evans, ed. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism (Edinburgh, 2001), pp. 162 –72.
“Legitimitate, identitate nationala si asociere civila”, 22, 10 July 2001, p. IX (with Ovidiu Caraiani).
“Heroes and the Law: Vico on the Foundations of Political Order”, New Vico Studies 19 (2001), pp. 29-43.
“Vico’s Critique of the Theory of Social Contract”, in Jose M. Sevilla et al, eds., Pensar el nuevo siglo: Giambattista Vico y la cultura europea (Naples, 2001, 3 vols.), vol. II, pp. 813-23.
“Legitimacy, National Identity and Civil Association”, In L. Boia et al, eds., Nation and National Ideology: Past, Present and Prospects (Bucharest 2002), pp. 377-89.
“Italy in the 1990s: Policy Concertation Resurgent”, in Stefan Berger and Hugh Compston, eds., Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe (Oxford, 2002), pp. 207-19.
“Against the Current: Speculative Knowledge and Practical Wisdom”, in Glenn Magee, ed., Philosophy and Culture: Essays in Honor of Donald Phillip Verene (Charlottesville, 2002), pp. 15-35.
“Between Philosophy and History: Recent Studies of Vico”, European Journal of Political Theory 2 (2003), pp. 341-6.
“Practical Reason and Identity”, in Bruce Haddock and Peter Sutch, eds., Multiculturalism, Identity and Rights (London, 2003), pp. 10-24.
“Introduction”, in ibid., pp. 1-9 (with Peter Sutch).
“Contingency and Judgement in Oakeshott’s Political Thought”, European Journal of Political Theory 4 (2005), pp. 7-21.
“Between Revolution and Reaction: Vincenzo Cuoco’s Saggio storico”, European Journal of Political Theory 5 (2006), pp. 22-33.
“Thin Universalism as Weak Foundationalism”, in Bruce Haddock, Peri Roberts and Peter Sutch, eds., Principles and Political Order: The Challenge of Diversity (London, 2006), pp. 60-75.
“Introduction”, in ibid., pp. 1-9 (with Peri Roberts and Peter Sutch).
Research
I have worked for many years on diverse aspects of history of political thought, ranging from detailed studies of particular thinkers to broad treatments of themes in the western tradition. Throughout my work I try to set political thought in the context of the emerging institutional, cultural and economic framework of the modern world.
Over the past decade I have also confronted challenging questions about the status of moral and political principles. In recent work I try to model precisely what goes on when we make judgements of value from embedded positions in social and political cultures.
I continue to work on contemporary normative issues in Italy and Romania.
Postgraduate Students
I am happy to supervise research students in the followings areas: political philosophy and theory; history of political thought; contemporary politics and culture in Italy, Romania and Wales.