Mark Philp

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. [1]

Books

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. [2]

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