Dr Christopher Brooke

Personal profile

Between 2000 and 2009 I worked in Oxford, first as a Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College, later as the Isaiah Berlin Research Fellow in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations and at Balliol College. From 2009 until 2012 I was Lecturer in Political Theory / History of Political Thought in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at Cambridge, where I was also Fellow in Politics at King's College. I came to Bristol in 2012.

Research

My work concentrates on themes in the history of modern political thought.

Last year I published my major work, Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau (Princeton University Press, 2012), and a collection I've edited along with Elizabeth Frazer, Ideas of Education: Philosophy and Politics from Plato to Dewey, has just come out (May 2013); and I'm currently working on the second draft of a book on the last two hundred and fifty years or so of arguing about distributive justice called Who Gets What?

Future projects will probably focus on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the political thought of the first half of the nineteenth century, and the debate about European confederation from the Treaty of Utrecht to the Treaty of Rome.

Teaching

My teaching has always ranged widely across the field of political ideas, from the ancient Greeks down to the present day. For 2011/12 I am teaching first-year Political Concepts as well as being the unit owner for the second-year History of Political Thought course.

Fields of interest

Stoicism, Rousseau, distributive justice, Enlightenment, history of political thought

Full publications list in the University of Bristol publications system