Hugo Drochon
@hdrochon.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Theory @uniofnottingham.bsky.social | Author of 'Nietzsche's Great Politics' (Princeton 2016) and 'Elites and Democracy' (forthcoming Princeton 2026)
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Elites and democracy
www.lse.ac.uk
Looking forward to giving a taste of my forthcoming book Elites and Democracy at the LSE European Institute tomorrow lunchtime!🍾
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Some classics from the amazing Richter exhibition at the Foundation Louis Vuitton
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Some classics from the amazing Richter exhibition at the Foundation Louis Vuitton
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Years ago I sent a review to the editor of a leading journal, very late. I apologised, maybe a bit too profusely. He replied (apparently in all seriousness) ‘it’s ok. We’ve all done things we are ashamed of.’ I often think of this when I need a good laugh.
November 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Years ago I sent a review to the editor of a leading journal, very late. I apologised, maybe a bit too profusely. He replied (apparently in all seriousness) ‘it’s ok. We’ve all done things we are ashamed of.’ I often think of this when I need a good laugh.
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Bravo, Drew (@drewflanaganphd.bsky.social); really looking forward to reading this soon! #skystorians
I've got a book coming out in April (available for preorder) on the civilizing mission of France in post-WWII Germany and its links to the emergence of European unity. Check it out!
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November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Bravo, Drew (@drewflanaganphd.bsky.social); really looking forward to reading this soon! #skystorians
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Peter J. Verovšek, Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist - @columbiaup.bsky.social, March 2026 @pjv.bsky.social
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Jürgen Habermas | Columbia University Press
Jürgen Habermas is Germany’s most important postwar philosopher, the leading figure of the Frankfurt School in this period. He is best known for the conc... | CUP
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November 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Peter J. Verovšek, Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist - @columbiaup.bsky.social, March 2026 @pjv.bsky.social
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With thanks to @standrewsiih.bsky.social! arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/intellectual...
Photo from conference in London · Intellectual History Archive
The Intellectual History Archive is a digital repository of papers from eminent intellectual historians. It is curated by the Institute of Intellectual History and hosted by the University of St Andre...
arts.st-andrews.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
With thanks to @standrewsiih.bsky.social! arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/intellectual...
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Reinhart Koselleck, Istvan Hont and Melvin Richter at a conference in London 1993
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Reinhart Koselleck, Istvan Hont and Melvin Richter at a conference in London 1993
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Can there be a modern natural law? Maybe, maybe not.
Review essay of Sean Coyle's recent book in AJJ.
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Review essay of Sean Coyle's recent book in AJJ.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Can there be a modern natural law? Maybe, maybe not.
Review essay of Sean Coyle's recent book in AJJ.
academic.oup.com/ajj/article/...
Review essay of Sean Coyle's recent book in AJJ.
academic.oup.com/ajj/article/...
Reinhart Koselleck, Istvan Hont and Melvin Richter at a conference in London 1993
November 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Reinhart Koselleck, Istvan Hont and Melvin Richter at a conference in London 1993
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🌳🎧 Start your October right - with Quentin Skinner on @rbpodcast.bsky.social. Quentin discusses his view on liberty, how freedom relates to democracy, and which limits there are to liberty in representative government.
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Quentin Skinner, is republican liberty fit for the 21st century?
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October 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
🌳🎧 Start your October right - with Quentin Skinner on @rbpodcast.bsky.social. Quentin discusses his view on liberty, how freedom relates to democracy, and which limits there are to liberty in representative government.
open.spotify.com/episode/3YdN...
open.spotify.com/episode/3YdN...
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New episode: Genealogy and Critique, with Raymond Geuss www.intellectualhistory.net/german-ih-li...
Genealogy and Critique, with Raymond Geuss — Institute of Intellectual History
In this episode, we interview Emeritus Professor Raymond Geuss (FBA) on the relationship between Genealogy and Critique. We discuss the relationship between Adorno, Heidegger and Nietzsche, the danger...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
New episode: Genealogy and Critique, with Raymond Geuss www.intellectualhistory.net/german-ih-li...
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Philosophy’s claim to universal truth is a “cultural artifact." In positing a Nietzschean genealogy to explore the violent origins of our concepts, our podcast of the week rejects any search for an abstract primordial reality.
With Raymond Geuss at @standrewsiih.bsky.social
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With Raymond Geuss at @standrewsiih.bsky.social
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October 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Philosophy’s claim to universal truth is a “cultural artifact." In positing a Nietzschean genealogy to explore the violent origins of our concepts, our podcast of the week rejects any search for an abstract primordial reality.
With Raymond Geuss at @standrewsiih.bsky.social
buff.ly/oleBSEJ
With Raymond Geuss at @standrewsiih.bsky.social
buff.ly/oleBSEJ
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Edward Hall, Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century - @academic.oup.com Oxford University Press, July 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Edward Hall, Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century - @academic.oup.com Oxford University Press, July 2025
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So great to see that @franceculture.fr has dedicated a podcast series to the anthropologist Roberte Hamayon (1939-2025) and her path-breaking studies of shamanism www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Roberte Hamayon, le chamanisme et au-delà : un podcast à écouter en ligne | France Culture
Par Antoine Dhulster. Voyage en archives à la découverte de la surnature et du monde des esprits des peuples de l'Asie, en hommage à Roberte Hamayon. Cette anthropologue disparue le 18 mars 2025 était...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
So great to see that @franceculture.fr has dedicated a podcast series to the anthropologist Roberte Hamayon (1939-2025) and her path-breaking studies of shamanism www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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'The result is something rare—intellectual history that is not just researched but also reported, a vivid narrative that sweeps the reader along'
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
The Neo-Right's Multi-Front Revolt Against America
A political theorist traces the intellectual history of the various strains of a movement gone rogue
www.theunpopulist.net
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
'The result is something rare—intellectual history that is not just researched but also reported, a vivid narrative that sweeps the reader along'
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
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Happy to share this term-card for History and Theory of IR colloquium (org by G. Marques Pedro and A. Nohr, @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social).
Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!
Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!
September 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Happy to share this term-card for History and Theory of IR colloquium (org by G. Marques Pedro and A. Nohr, @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @cirr-ug.bsky.social).
Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!
Patricia Owens on Erased, Alanna O'Malley on the invisible UN, Carmen Chas on intl law, and more - not to be missed for those in NL!
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Happy to share my latest article on “Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956, with Modern Intellectual History.
Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.
Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.
“Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956 | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
“Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956
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June 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Happy to share my latest article on “Between Ford and Gandhi”: André Siegfried’s Environmental Geopolitics, c.1898–1956, with Modern Intellectual History.
Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.
Grateful to all the colleagues who helped shape this along the way, and hoping it makes for an enjoyable read.
'The result is something rare—intellectual history that is not just researched but also reported, a vivid narrative that sweeps the reader along'
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
The Neo-Right's Multi-Front Revolt Against America
A political theorist traces the intellectual history of the various strains of a movement gone rogue
www.theunpopulist.net
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
'The result is something rare—intellectual history that is not just researched but also reported, a vivid narrative that sweeps the reader along'
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
👏 brillant review of @lkatfield.bsky.social's 'Furious Minds' by William Galston in @theunpopulist.net www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-neo-ri...
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Authoritarians destroy institutions, liberals build them. At @theunpopulist.net I am working with v. smart colleagues to do just that in a post-Trump, post-authoritarian world. @andycraig.bsky.social @aaronrosspowell.com and I discuss. www.theunpopulist.net/p/america-wi...
America Will Need a Reconstruction Project After Trump: A Conversation with Shikha Dalmia and Andy Craig
Liberals will have to rebuild the institutions of governance and accountability that Trump is destroying and The UnPopulist plans to lead the way
www.theunpopulist.net
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Authoritarians destroy institutions, liberals build them. At @theunpopulist.net I am working with v. smart colleagues to do just that in a post-Trump, post-authoritarian world. @andycraig.bsky.social @aaronrosspowell.com and I discuss. www.theunpopulist.net/p/america-wi...
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My colleague Lauren Duval has a new book coming out next month from @uncpress.bsky.social on military occupation and households in the Revolution. Lauren is real smart. Put it in your cart. #HATM
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
My colleague Lauren Duval has a new book coming out next month from @uncpress.bsky.social on military occupation and households in the Revolution. Lauren is real smart. Put it in your cart. #HATM
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Jan-Werner Müller (@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social), Straße, Platz, Palast: Zur Architektur demokratischer Räume (@suhrkamp.de, 2026; #skystorians) www.suhrkamp.de/buch/jan-wer...
Straße, Platz, Palast. Buch von Jan-Werner Müller (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Menschen gehen auf die Straße. Die Öffentlichkeit wird als Marktplatz der Ideen... | Buch von Jan-Werner Müller versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen
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November 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Jan-Werner Müller (@jwmueller-pu.bsky.social), Straße, Platz, Palast: Zur Architektur demokratischer Räume (@suhrkamp.de, 2026; #skystorians) www.suhrkamp.de/buch/jan-wer...
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Alice Gregory, The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star (@newyorker.com): www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star
As af Klint’s fame has grown, so have the questions—about what she believed, whom she worked with, and who should be allowed to speak in her name.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Alice Gregory, The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star (@newyorker.com): www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Amina Hassani (@amiha.bsky.social), La justice du capital : Quand les multinationales (dé)font la loi (@lafabrique.bsky.social, 2025 ; #skystorians) lafabrique.fr/la-justice-d...
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Amina Hassani (@amiha.bsky.social), La justice du capital : Quand les multinationales (dé)font la loi (@lafabrique.bsky.social, 2025 ; #skystorians) lafabrique.fr/la-justice-d...
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My review of Ryan Balot's 'Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws' now published by Sehepunkte (in English); while I wasn't sure about the book's overall claim about the dialogue's philosophical coherence, I found much valuable analysis in it. www.sehepunkte.de/2025/11/4010...
SEHEPUNKTE - Rezension von: Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws - Ausgabe 25 (2025), Nr. 11
Rezension über Ryan K. Balot: Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024, XIV + 425 S., ISBN 978-0-1976-4722-6, GBP 78,00
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November 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
My review of Ryan Balot's 'Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws' now published by Sehepunkte (in English); while I wasn't sure about the book's overall claim about the dialogue's philosophical coherence, I found much valuable analysis in it. www.sehepunkte.de/2025/11/4010...
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We're always hearing about the "elite", but what does the data tell us about who really runs Britain?
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com reviews "Born To Rule" by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com reviews "Born To Rule" by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social
Book review: Born to Rule
We're always hearing about the "elite", but what does the data tell us about who runs Britain?
newhumanist.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
We're always hearing about the "elite", but what does the data tell us about who really runs Britain?
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com reviews "Born To Rule" by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com reviews "Born To Rule" by @aaronreeves.bsky.social and @samfriedman.bsky.social
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Born to Rule on The Economist’s Top 10 Politics and Current Affairs books of the year 🎉🎉🎉🎉
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www.economist.com/culture/2024...
The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist
Readers will never think the same way again about games, horses and spies
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November 25, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Born to Rule on The Economist’s Top 10 Politics and Current Affairs books of the year 🎉🎉🎉🎉
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