Serge Audier is maître de conferences in moral philosophy and politics at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and a member of the Institut universitaire de France.
He has published extensively on French liberalism, including, Tocqueville retrouvé. Genèse et enjeux du renouveau tocquevillien français (2004), Raymond Aron, la démocratie conflictuelle (2004), Le socialisme libéral (2005), La pensée solidariste. Aux sources du modèle social républicain (2010), and Néo-Libéralisme(s). Une archéologie intellectuelle (2012).
Aurelian Craiutu is Associate Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He also serves as the director of the Tocqueville
programme at Indiana University, and is associate editor of the European Journal of Political Theory. He is the author of several books including Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires (2003) (CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award), and Le centre introuvable: la pensée politique des doctrinaires sous la Restauration (2006). A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought is forthcoming in 2011.
Raf Geenens is a postdoctoral researcher in Political Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He has co-edited a volume
on Alexis de Tocqueville, Reading Tocqueville: From Oracle to Actor (2007) and a volume on contemporary theories of democracy, Does Truth Matter? Democracy and Public Space (2009). He is the author of a forthcoming book on Claude Lefort, Being Democratic. On Claude Lefort’s Political Philosophy.
Stephen Holmes is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at New York University. He has taught at Yale, Princeton, the University of Chicago and
Harvard, and has written widely on the history of European liberalism. His numerous publications include
Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism (1984),
The Anatomy of Antiliberalism (1993) and
Passions and Constraint: The Theory of Liberal Democracy (1995).
Andrew Jainchill is Associate Professor of History at Queen’s University, Canada. He is the author of Reimagining Politics after the Terror: The Republican Origins of French Liberalism (2008), as well as articles and essays in French Historical Studies, Modern Intellectual History and the Journal of Modern History. He is currently working on the origins of revolutionary republicanism and concepts of sovereignty in the eighteenth century.
Lucien Jaume is Professor of Political Thought at Sciences Po, Paris. He is the author of L’individu effacé ou le paradoxe du libéralisme français (1997), Le discours jacobin et la démocratie (1989) and Tocqueville: les sources aristocratiques de la liberté (2008), which recently received the Guizot Prize of the Académie française. He is also one of the supervisors of new scholarly
editions of both Benjamin Constant’s and Mme de Staël’s complete writings.
Alan S. Kahan has taught at the University of Chicago, Rice University and Florida International University. He currently teaches at Sciences
Po and at the American Graduate School in Paris. He is the author of Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville (1992); Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage (2003); and Alexis de Tocqueville (2009). He has translated Tocqueville’s The Old Regime and the Revolution (2001), and co-edited The Tocqueville Reader (2002). He is currently working on a book about the relationship between religion and democracy and translating Benjamin
Constant’s Commentary on Filangieri’s Work.
William Logue is Professor Emeritus of History at Northern Illinois University. His work focuses on the history of French political thought.
He is the author of Charles Renouvier: Philosopher of Liberty (1993); Léon Blum: The Formative Years, 1872–1914 (1973); and From Philosophy to Sociology: The Evolution of French Liberalism, 1870–1914 (1983).
Samuel Moyn is Professor of History at Columbia University. He specializes in the history of continental political thought, and more specifically
in twentieth-century French thought. He is the author of
Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics (2005),
A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France (2005), and of a recent book on human rights,
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010).
Helena Rosenblatt is Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is a specialist in the history of French
liberalism, and more specifically in the work of Benjamin Constant. Her publications include Rousseau and Geneva: From the First Discourse to The Social Contract, 1749–1762 (1997) and Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion (2008). She is also the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Constant (2009).
Larry Siedentop is an Emeritus Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and was for many years Faculty Lecturer in Political Thought at the University
of Oxford. An expert in French liberalism, his works include Tocqueville (1994) and Democracy in Europe (2001). He is also the editor of Guizot’s History of Civilization in Europe (1997), and is an occasional contributor to the Financial Times.
Céline Spector is Professor at the University of Bordeaux 3. She has also lectured at the École normale supérieure and Stanford University.
A well-known Montesquieu scholar, she has written numerous articles on Montesquieu, edited several anthologies, and has authored
two books: Montesquieu. Pouvoirs, richesses et sociétés (2004) and Montesquieu et l’émergence de l’économie politique (2006). She has also written a number of articles on Rousseau, and is currently preparing a book on Rousseau.
Jean-Fabien Spitz is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Paris I. His research interests include theories of republicanism,
the work of John Locke, and the history of French political liberalism. He is the author of several books, including La liberté politique: essai de généalogie conceptuelle (1995), L’amour de l’égalité: essai sur la critique de l’égalitarisme républicain en France, 1770–1830 (2000), John Locke et les fondements de la liberté moderne (2001), and Le moment républicain en France (2005).
Philippe Steiner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
He is a member of the team editing the
Œuvres complètes de Jean-Baptiste Say. His research is mainly devoted to the history of
the social sciences and economic sociology, and his recent publications include
La transplantation d’organes: un commerce nouveau entre les êtres humains (2010);
Durkheim and the Birth of Economic Sociology (2011); and ‘Les rémunerations obscènes’,
Revue de MAUSS permanente, 7 (2011).
Cheryl B. Welch is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University. She is the
author of Liberty and Utility: The French Idéologues and the Transformation of Liberalism (1984) and De Tocqueville (2001). She is also the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville (2006) and an editor of La revue Tocqueville/The Tocqueville Review. The author of numerous articles on French and British political thought, liberalism and democracy, she is currently working
on a book on moral discourse in international relations in the early nineteenth century.
Richard Whatmore is Reader in Intellectual History at the University of Sussex. His research focuses on French, British and Swiss political
and economic thought during the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. His publications include Republicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of Jean-Baptiste Say’s Political Economy (2000).