Room: Phone: Email: Office Hours:

Room 3.11, third floor of the Faculty of Arts Building +44 (0)24 76150927 (x50927) mark.philp@warwick.ac.uk  Do please contact me by email if you wish to see me - I aim to respond quickly and am happy to talk in some form outside designated office hours These are, formally: Tuesdays 10:00 - 11:00

 

Research Interests

 
My research includes work in the history of political thought, social and cultural history from 1750-1850, and political theory and political sociology, most recently on justice in relation to ageing, political corruption and issues relating to standards in public life. I am currently working on issues relating to political conduct and corruption, the re-imagining of democracy at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries in Central and Northern Europe, a project on the Diaries of William Upcott, and on familial justice and ageing.

I chair the Research Advisory Board to the Committee on Standards in Public LifeLink opens in a new window and have contributed to enquiries conducted by the Committee. See also my Max Weber Lecture at the EUILink opens in a new window and the interview there about aspects of my work in this area (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdInTTriPoI&feature=share). There is a Kenya dimension to these interests details of which can be found on the following website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ehrc/events/constructionspublicoffice/

From 2007-2010 I ran a three year digitization project on the the Diary of William Godwin, 1788-1836, funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Grant. The edited edition of the diary can be found at: http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/.

I co-direct with Joanna Innes (Oxford) the research project 'Re-imagining Democracy 1750-1850' see www.re-imaginingdemocracy.com; which is working on its third book examining Latin America and the Caribbean.

I have also worked with Kate Astbury (Warwick) on the 100 days project http://www.100days.org.uk/ and the Barricades Project: http://barricades.ac.ukLink opens in a new window

I am the series editor of Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought for Oxford University Press. The most recent volume published was Malcolm Schofield's Cicero 2020.

 

Academic Career

• 2013-present: Professor of History and Politics, University of Warwick
• 2014-2022 Director of Research and Impact, History
• 2013-2018 Director of the European History Research Centre
• 2000-2005: Head of Department, Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford (for leaving conference see here)
• 1983-2013: Fellow and Tutor in Politics and a Lecturer in Politics, Oriel College, University of Oxford

 
Teaching

• HI174 The Enlightenment (undergraduate first-year option module)
• HI2A5 Individual, Polis and Society: Philosophical Reflections in History (undergraduate second-year module)
• PH 370 Montaigne's Essays (Philosophy 15 credit option open to Historians)

Publications

Recent publications include

Books:

• with Clare Clarke, The Diary of Sharon Turner, 1793-95 University of Warwick, December 2023)
• E. Posado-Carbo, J. Innes and M. Philp eds., Re-imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean (New York, Oxford University Press, 2023).
• Radical Conduct: Politics, Sociability and Equality in London 1789-1815 (Cambridge University Press, 2020 (September))
• ed with Georgios Vouraxakis, Happiness and Utility: Essays Presented to Frederick Rosen (UCL Press, London, 2019)
• ed. with Joanna Innes, Re-imagining Democracy in the Mediterranean 1780-1860 (Oxford University Press, 2018)
• ed. The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill (Oxford World's Classics, 2018)
• ed. with Katherine Astbury, Napoleon's Hundred Days and the Politics of Legitimacy (Palgrave, 2018)
• ed. with Fred Rosen, J. S. MIll, On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays (OUP, World's Classics, 2015)
• Reforming Ideas in Britain: Politics and Language in the Shadow of the French Revolution 1789-1815Link opens in a new window (Cambridge University Press, November 2013)
• ed. William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (OUP, World's Classics, 2013)
• ed. with J. Innes, Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions (Oxford University Press, 2013)
• ed. J Plamenatz, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Rousseau (Oxford University Press, 2012)
• Political Conduct (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2007)
• Thomas Paine (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007)
• ed., Resisting Napoleon: The British Response to the threat of invasion 1797-1815 (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006)
• Napoleon and the Invasion of Britain, with Alexandra Franklin, (Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2003)
• ed., Thomas Paine Rights of Man, Common Sense, and other Political Writings (Oxford, World's Classics, 1995)
• General Editor, Collected Political and Philosophical Writings of William Godwin, 7 Volumes (Pickering Masters 1993)
• General Editor, Collected Novels and Memoirs of William Godwin, 8 Volumes (Pickering Maters, 1992)
• ed., The French Revolution and British Popular Politics (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991)
• Paine (Oxford University Press, Past Master Series, 1989)
• Godwin's Political Justice (Duckworth (UK) and Cornell University Press (USA), 1986) (paper 1988)

 Recent articles include:

• 'The Passions, Real Politics, and the Practice of Political Theory: an interview with Mark Philp' Politics and Poetics V, July 2023
• 'Touch: Changing norms of physical contact between men and women in 18th century England' Dix Huitieme Siecle 55, 2023, 63-77
• 'Candour, Courage and the Calculation of Consequences in Godwin's 1790s' in Eliza O'Brien et al, New Approaches to William Godwin (Palgrave, Macmillan, 2021)
• 'Music and Movement in Britain 1789-1815' Journal of British Studies 60 (2) 2021 403-415
• 'Paine and Socioeconomic Rights' French History Volume 33, Issue 4, December 2019, Pages 554–57 https://academic.oup.com/fh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/fh/crz092/5695855?guestAccessKey=ebea1daa-91fa-4ee0-bfbf-64d56dd9cfd6Link opens in a new window
• 'William Godwin' in The Wollstonecraftian Mind ed S. Berges, E. Hunt-Botting, and A. Coffee et al (Routledge, 2019), 211-223.
• with Dominic Burbidge 'Corruption' in the Routledge Handbook of Democratization in Africa ed.,Gabrielle Lynch and Peter VonDoepp (Routledge, London, 2019), 434-447
• 'The Corruption of Politics' Social Philosophy and Policy 35 (2) Winter 2018, 73-93.
• 'Democracy' from Book to Life: The emergence of the term in active political debate to 1848' with Joanna Innes in Democracy in Modern Europe: A Conceptual History, ed., Jussi Kurunmaki, Jeppe Nevers and Henk te Velde (Berghahn, New York, 2018, 16-41.
• 'Politics and the "Pure of Heart": Realism and Corruption' in Matt Sleat ed., Politics Recovered: Realist Thought in Theory and Practice (Columbia University Press, New York, 2018), 194-217.
• 'Afterword: Dibdin's Miscellany' in Oskar Cox Jensen, David Kennerley and Ian Newman, eds., Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018).
• 'Unconventional Calling:Godwin, Women and Visiting in the 1790s' in K. Gilmartin ed.,Sociable Places: Locating Culture in Romantic-era Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
• 'Nervous laughter and the invasion of Britain 1797-1805' in Mark Knights and Adam Morton, The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain: Political and Religious Culture 1500-1800 (Boydell, 2017).
• 'Justice, Realism, and Family Care for the Aged' Social Philosophy and Policy (Winter, 2016) vol 23 (1 and 2
• 'The Definition of Political Corruption', in Paul Heywood, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption, (Routledge,London, 2015) pp. 17-29.
• ‘Realism about Political Corruption’ Mark Philp and Elizabeth David-Barrett, Annu. Rev Politic. Sci 18, 2015, pp. 329-48.
• 'Revolutionaries in Paris, Paine, Jefferson and Democracy' in Simon P. Newman and Peter S. Onuf, eds., Paine and Jefferson in the Age of Revolutions, (University of Virginia Press, 2013)
• ‘Representing America: Paine and the New Democracy’, in E. Dzelzainis and R. Livesey, The American Experiment and the Idea of Democracy in British Culture, 1776–1914 (Ashgate, 2013).
• Preaching to the Unconverted: Rationality and Repression in the 1790s’ Enlightenment and Dissent 2013.
• ‘Realism without Illusion’ Political Theory October 2012, 40: 629-649.
• ‘Paine: Rights of Man’ in P. Clemit ed., Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
• ‘Improper Levity: Sarah Elwes’s Calling’ Bodleian Library Record 24(1) 2011
• ‘Godwin, Thelwall and the Means of Progress’ in Godwinian Moments, ed., Victoria Myers & Bob Maniquis, (University of Toronto Press, 2011).
• ‘What is to be Done: Political Theory and Political realism’ European Journal of Political Theory October 2010 vol. 9 no. 4, 466-484.
• The substance and the shadow: Tale of Two Cities and the French revolution, in C. Jones, J McDonagh and J. Mee Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, and the French Revolution (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009).
• ‘Delimiting Political Accountability’ Political Studies 2009, Vol 59 (1), 28-53.
• ‘Political Theory and the Evaluation of Political Conduct’ Social Theory and Practice 34 (3) July 2008, 389-410.
• ‘Peacebuilding and Corruption’ in International Peacekeeping 15(3) June 2008, 310-27.
• ‘Political Theory and History’, in D. Leopold and M. Stears, Political Theory: Methods and Approaches (Oxford University Press, 2008).
• 'Disconcerting Ideas: Explaining Popular Radicalism and Popular Loyalism in the 1790s' in G Burgess and M Festenstein eds., English Radicalism 1550-1850 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007).
• ‘Politics and Memory: Nelson and Trafalgar in Popular Song’ – in D. Cannadine ed., Trafalgar in History (Palgrave, 2006).
• ‘Corruption Definition and Measurement’ in C Sampford et al Measuring Corruption (Ashgate, 2006).
• ‘Modeling Political Corruption in Transition’ in Political Corruption ed., Von Alleman (Verlag, 2005).
• New Dictionary of National Biography entries on William Godwin (5,000) and Thomas Paine (12,000) (Oxford University Press, 2005).
• ‘Enlightenment, Republicanism and Radicalism’ in The Enlightenment World, ed., M Fitzpatrick, P. Jones, K. C. Knellwolf and I. McCalman (London, Routledge, 2004).