Centre for Intellectual History

Adam Smiths\'s Politics Liberalism and Sociology: L. T. Hobhouse and Political Argument in England 1880-1914 A Liberal Descent That Noble Science of Politics Whigs and Liberals: Continuity and Change in English Political Thought (The Carlyle Lectures 1985) For a generation, Sussex has been central in the flourishing of intellectual history in Britain and internationally.
Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain 1850-1930 Riches and Poverty History, Religion and Culture: British Intellectual History 1750-1950 Economy, Polity and Society: British Intellectual History 1750-1950 A History of Histories For a generation, Sussex has been central in the flourishing of intellectual history in Britain and internationally.
The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith Enlightenment and Religon The Crisis of Reason Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment Palgrave Advances in Intellectual History For a generation, Sussex has been central in the flourishing of intellectual history in Britain and internationally.
Republicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of Jean-Baptiste Say\s Political Economy Wealth and Life Evolution and Society The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics For a generation, Sussex has been central in the flourishing of intellectual history in Britain and internationally.
The Victorians and Rome Newton: A Very Short Introduction The Sinews of the Spirit: The Ideal of Christian Manliness in Victorian Literature and Religious Thought Emer de Vattel on the Law of Nations Monarchism and Absolutism in Early Modern Europe For a generation, Sussex has been central in the flourishing of intellectual history in Britain and internationally.
Against War & Empire: Geneva, Britain and France in the Eighteenth Century Secularisation and the Leiden Circle Sir Robert Filmer and the patriotic monarch Evolution and Society The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy For a generation, Sussex has been central in the flourishing of intellectual history in Britain and internationally.

The University of Sussex has long been an important national and international centre for research in intellectual history. At its foundation, intellectual history at Sussex brought together faculty from disparate areas in the arts and social sciences (Economics, English, History, Philosophy, Classics, Sociology, Politics, and Theology). Intellectual history has thrived at Sussex because of the University’s traditional focus upon interdisciplinarity, and the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History's task is to maintain this tradition. The Centre continues the tradition of investigation into political, economic, and social thought and its connections with literature from early modern to modern times in Britain and in Europe. While maintaining a focus on the national and international history of social, political and economic thought, the Centre has sought to broaden the agenda to include the history of philosophy and science and their connections with religious thought. We maintain a broad European perspective in these areas through recent and current work on Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Scandinavian, Scottish, and Swiss topics. The transfer of ideas internationally and across continents is also a central concern of the centre.

The Centre promotes intellectual history by being a hub for scholars to pursue research and develop their teaching and by maintaining links to other groups in the UK, across Europe and in North America, Australasia, the Middle East and Far East.

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Certificate in Intellectual History

MA in Intellectual History

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