Alan Coffee

Biographic Data

ID3471184
NAMEAlan Coffee
GIVEN NAMESAlan
FAMILY NAMECoffee
SIGNATURECOFFEE A
AFFILIATIONSKing's College London
ORCID0000-0002-3137-2216
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS42
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Invisible and Political Chains

    Open AccessAlan Coffee, Alan M S J CoffeeARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2025References: 2

  • Mary Wollstonecraft and Richard Price

    Open AccessAlan Coffee, Alan M S J CoffeeARTICLEWomen s Writing2024

    In Wollstonecraft’s early writings, she articulates the foundational theological and philosophical principles that would underpin her work throughout her career. One difference between her early and later work lies in the way that the values to which she refers are combined. Whereas Wollstonecraft at first appeals to the separate ideals of independence, equality, and virtue, from the 1790s onwards she integrates these into a characteristic republ…

  • Interpersonal and Structural Domination

    Alan Coffee, Alan M S J CoffeeARTICLESocial Theory and Practice2024

    Republicans are divided on the question of whether domination is best understood in terms of capacities to act intentionally or of certain structural aspects of society. I offer a model combining each aspect derived from Frederick Douglass’s philosophy. Douglass referred to slavery in both interpersonal terms (to individuals) and structural (to the community), focussing on the unique and pervasive role played by social prejudice which distorts pu…

  • Catharine Macaulay’s Republican Conception of Social and Political Liberty

    Open AccessAlan Coffee, Alan MSJ CoffeeARTICLEPolitical Studies2017References: 2

    Catharine Macaulay was one of the most significant republican writers of her generation. Although there has been a revival of interest in Macaulay among feminists and intellectual historians, neo-republican writers have yet to examine the theoretical content of her work in any depth. Since she anticipates and addresses a number of themes that still preoccupy republicans, this neglect represents a serious loss to the discipline. I examine Macaulay…

  • Two spheres of domination

    Open AccessAlan Coffee, Alan M S J CoffeeARTICLEContemporary Political Theory2015Cited by: 9References: 21

  • Mary Wollstonecraft

    Open AccessMartina Reuter, Lena Halldenius et al.ARTICLEHypatia2014Cited by: 1

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  • Freedom as Independence

    Open AccessAlan Coffee, Alan M S J CoffeeARTICLEHypatia2014Cited by: 5References: 7

    Independence is a central and recurring theme in Mary Wollstonecraft's work. Independence should not be understood as an individualistic ideal that is in tension with the value of community but as an essential ingredient in successful and flourishing social relationships. I examine three aspects of this rich and complex concept that Wollstonecraft draws on as she develops her own notion of independence as a powerful feminist tool. First, independ…

  • Mary Wollstonecraft, freedom and the enduring power of social domination

    Open AccessAlan Coffee, Alan M S J CoffeeARTICLEEuropean Journal of Political…2013Cited by: 27

    Even long after their formal exclusion has come to an end, members of previously oppressed social groups often continue to face disproportionate restrictions on their freedom, as the experience of many women over the last century has shown. Working within in a framework in which freedom is understood as independence from arbitrary power, Mary Wollstonecraft provides an explanation of why such domination may persist and offers a model through whic…