Larry Siedentop
Larry Siedentop (born Chicago 1936) is an American-born British political philosopher with a special interest in 19th-century French liberalism. He is the author of Democracy in Europe[1] and an occasional contributor to several major British daily newspapers, including the Financial Times and The Times.
Siedentop attended Hope College, a liberal arts college in Michigan affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, and Harvard University, where he received his AM degree. He then received a DPhil from the University of Oxford (equivalent to a PhD elsewhere) for a thesis on the thought of Joseph de Maistre and Maine de Biran, written at Magdalen College, Oxford, under the supervision of Sir Isaiah Berlin.
From 1965 to 1968, Siedentop was a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, but he spent most of his academic career as a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and a University Lecturer.
After retiring from Oxford, Siedentop was a Visiting Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar, Queen Victoria Eugenia Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and a Visiting Fellow in Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St Andrews.
In November 2004, Siedentop was invested with a CBE for services to political thought and higher education.
Selected publications
Books as author
- Larry Siedentop (1994). 'Tocqueville (Past Masters)'. ISBN 978-0192876904.,[2]
- Larry Siedentop (2001). 'Democracy in Europe'. ISBN 978-0231123778.
- Larry Siedentop (2014). 'Inventing the Individual (The Origins of Western Liberalism)'. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0713996449.
Books as editor
- translator: Francois Guizot (1828). The History of Civilization in Europe. ISBN 978-0140446654.
- (with David Miller): various (1985). 'The Nature of Political Theory'. ISBN 978-0198274735., which is a collection of essays by and about political philosopher John Plamenatz.
Newspaper articles
- Siedentop, Larry (2009-10-14). ""A Nation Stuck in Selfish Mode: Too Much Liberalism is Quite the Wrong Diagnosis for British Decline"". The Independent (London). Retrieved 2015-01-31.
- Siedentop, Larry (2014-01-23). ""Remember the Religious Roots of Liberal Thought"". The Financial Times (London). Retrieved 2015-01-31.
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