Christopher Brooke

I'm Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Cambridge.

My work is on themes in the history of modern European political thought. I’m the author of Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau, which covers the period 1589 to 1761. More recently, I’ve edited the Penguin edition of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan.

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Brooke, C. (2020). Nonintrinsic egalitarianism, from Hobbes to Rousseau. The Journal of Politics, 82(4), 1406–1417.
Brooke, C. (2020). Robert Malthus, Rousseauist. Historical Journal, 63(1), 15–31. Cambridge University Press.
Brooke, C. (2018). Arsehole aristocracy (or: Montesquieu on honour, revisited). European Journal of Political Theory, 17(4), 391–410.
Brooke, C. (2017). Eighteenth-century Carthage. In B. Kapossy, I. Nakhimovsky, & R. Whatmore (Eds.), Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment (pp. 110–124). Cambridge University Press.
Hobbes, T. (2017). Leviathan (C. Brooke, Ed.). Penguin. (Original work published 1651).
Brooke, C. (2016). Isaiah Berlin and the Origins of the ‘Totalitarian’ Rousseau. In L. Brockliss, & R. Robertson (Eds.), Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment (pp. 89–98). Oxford University Press.

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Philosophic Pride: Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau