@ThomasUnser

Doctoral student @SciencesPo, I work on conservative thought in the 20th century with a focus on Strauss, Oakeshott and Aron. 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪 Formerly @ENS_ULM

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Joined July 2020
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Hannes Kerber@HannesKerberOct 21
Well, this is really great news. boydellandbrewer.com/book/th…
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Teresa M. Bejan
@tmbejanOct 20
Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap, 2026). It explores how and why “equality” became, rather suddenly, a basis on which ordinary men and women could make political demands in early modern England. hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
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The unbearable lightness of servitude: Étienne de la Boétie and the fragility of freedom - Catherine R. Power, 2026 journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…

The unbearable lightness of servitude: Étienne de la Boétie and the fragility of freedom - Cather...

Asserting human freedom to be innate, Étienne de la Boétie's argument that, in order for tyranny to persist, it must be that people choose servitude is the...

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Wow—the new JHI has a forum devoted to the brain sciences and intellectual history that looks great. Check it out here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57756
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Hugo Drochon@HDrochonOct 9
'What Gallo identifies as the dynamics between centre-periphery within the history of political thought might itself need to be re-thought.' Thrilled to introduce the Symposium to Gallo's wonderful Hegel and Italian Political Thought for @HEIjournal! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Introduction to the Symposium, Fernanda Gallo, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of...

Published in History of European Ideas (Vol. 52, No. 7, 2026)

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The Aron studies have seen some great handbooks recently, this one might be the best! Looking forward to reading it. A lucky timing as I am on the verge of completin my chapter on Aron.
Alexis Carré 🇲🇫@Aliocha24Oct 5
Glad to see this handbook on Raymond Aron come out at @routledgebooks I wrote the chapter on Aron's Analysis of Regimes: Between Ancients and Moderns taylorfrancis.com/chapters/e…

Aron's Analysis of Regimes | 13 | Between Anci

Through a close examination of Aron’s intellectual and political education this chapter calls into question mainstream interpretations

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Nicolas Guilhot@GuilhotNicolasOct 5
Honored to give the final keynote at this conference on « Truth and Un-truth in the History of Political Thought. » unina.it/en/w/viii-conferenz…
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My latest Substack post is on The New Historiography of Liberalism and includes a syllabus for a course I taught on the intellectual history of liberalism since World War II: historyofnow.substack.com/p/…
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David A. Bell@DavidAvromBellOct 1
Friendly note to academic job applicants: Be careful when converting Word files to pdfs. I have seen several cases this year where pdfs inadvertently included "Comments" that advisors, colleagues and friends made on draft materials.
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Eloise Davies@elo_davSep 30
Out next week! Stuart Serenissima: Venice & England in the Seventeenth Century, edited by Alana Mailes & me With exciting new essays from Carol Rutter, @stefanovil, Filippo de Vivo, Antonio Iodice, Christina Anderson, Benjamin Woodford & Amy Dunagin liverpooluniversitypress.co.…

Stuart Serenissima | Home

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Stefan Eich@stefeichSep 30
New #openaccess article just dropped in the APSR! Leah Downey & yours truly on why people should stop using “democratize” when they really mean increasing market access. Looking at you, economists! 👀 Also, what would actual “democratization” look like when applied to finance?
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Teresa M. Bejan
@tmbejanMar 11
My second book, First Among Equals, is now up on the HUP website, coming out this October.
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Raymond Aron on French fears of the Americans (1951): “When they see the tin can replacing home cooking, Coke substituted for the noblest product of the soil (wine), the taste-destroying refrigerator threatening the extinction of the cellar, they grow properly alarmed.”
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banu bargu@banubarguSep 25
Happy to announce a new issue of Political Theory (54.5) with great contributions: journals.sagepub.com/toc/ptx…

Political Theory - Volume 54, Number 5

Table of contents for Political Theory, 54, 5

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I am just a few pages in the paper but I think it would interest my friends working on tyranny, populism, bonapartism, illiberalism and the likes!
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
@daniel_dsj2110Sep 24
New from Modern Intellectual History: “Caesarism is increasingly replacing that much-used (and abused) concept of recent years: populism.”: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Have a Substack post about my forthcoming intellectual biography of Raymond Aron: substack.com/@dsj2110/note/p…
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Digressionsnimpress.@nescio13Sep 21
On Oakeshott on Strauss on Hobbes as the founder of liberalism digressionsimpressions.subst…
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Emile Chabal@emile_chabalSep 19
The programme I run, the MSc in Contemporary History, is one of those that will be axed. The bonfire of the universities has truly come for Edinburgh.
Prof Bob Davis@RokewoodSep 19
This is absolutely dreadful news heraldscotland.com/news/2655…

Full list of the 90 programmes earmarked for closure at leading Scottish university

Managers say the cuts are necessary “to protect our world-leading reputation and resilience in research and teaching” but staff members have hit back.

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C'est vrai que la lecture des passages sélectionnés rappelle un peu trop la correction des DM que j'avais reçu en 2024. Mais bon, c'est à peine une dizaine d'extraits... J'imagine qu'une vraie enquête va sortir ! Si quelqu'un à des échos du côté socio de l'édition et des prix?
Balance ton Claude
@PangramedSep 21
Replying to @Pangramed
Et le commentaire Babelio d'un lecteur lucide, qui nous offre quelques extraits croustillants "made in Chat GPT".
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D'ailleurs ça ne préjuge pas vraiment de la qualité, mais je suis simplement devenu allergique au style IA (en particulier celui de Claude) ou à toute écriture qui lui ressemble.
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