Mark Philp
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Mark Philp is a British
political philosopher
and historian of political thought
who specialises in British political thought in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He has published books on Thomas Paine
and on responses to the French Revolution
in Britain.
Philp has been a Fellow of Oriel College
since 1983, and was head of the then newly-created University of Oxford
Department of Politics and International Relations from 2000 to 2005. He is currently working on the reaction in British political thought to the Napoleonic threat, and on digitising the diaries of William Godwin
. http://godwindiary.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/
He is also Series Editor of the Oxford University Press
Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought series, which presently includes volumes on Plato
, Aristotle
, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Tocqueville and Durkheim. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/category/academic/series/philosophy/fmpst.do
United Kingdom
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political philosopher
Political philosophy
Political philosophy is the study of such topics as liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it...
and historian of political thought
History of political thinking
The history of political thought goes back to antiquity. The political history of the world, and thus the history of political thinking by man, stretches up though the Medieval period and the Renaissance...
who specialises in British political thought in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He has published books on Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
Thomas "Tom" Paine was an English author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States...
and on responses to the French Revolution
French Revolution
The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
in Britain.
Philp has been a Fellow of Oriel College
Oriel College
Oriel College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford...
since 1983, and was head of the then newly-created University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
Department of Politics and International Relations from 2000 to 2005. He is currently working on the reaction in British political thought to the Napoleonic threat, and on digitising the diaries of William Godwin
William Godwin
William Godwin was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and the first modern proponent of anarchism...
. http://godwindiary.politics.ox.ac.uk/about/
Books
- Thomas Paine (Very Interesting People) [2007] OUP Page, with Contents
- Political Conduct [2007] HUP Page, with Description
- Resisting Napoleon: The British Response to the Threat of Invasion 1797–1815 (Editor) [2006]
- Napoleon and the Invasion of Britain (with Alexandra Franklin) [2003]
- Rights of Man, Common Sense, Other Political Writings (Oxford World Classics; Editor) [1998]
- The Political and Philosophical Writings of William Godwin (Pickering Masters; edited with Martin FitzPatrick and William St. Clair) [1993]
- The Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin (Pickering Masters; edited with Pamela Clemit and Maurice Hindle) [1992]
- The French Revolution and British Popular Politics (Editor) [1991]
- Paine (Past Master's) [1989]
- Godwin's Political Justice [1986]
He is also Series Editor of the Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought series, which presently includes volumes on Plato
Plato
Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
, Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Tocqueville and Durkheim. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/category/academic/series/philosophy/fmpst.do