Duncan Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Duncan Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Duncan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hans Kelsen on Constitutional Democracy: Genesis, Theory, Legacies
This volume challenges conventional interpretations by demonstrating that Hans Kelsen was far from being a purely formalist thinker. Instead, it highlights his profound and enduring engagement with the threats facing constitutional democracies. The political and institutional upheavals of interwar Europe significantly influenced Kelsen's evolving vision of democracy, as this volume shows. His contributions to twentieth-century democratic theory i…
Labor, nature, and the reproduction of capitalism: An exchange on subjection and emancipation
Following the Money
The two first reflections on the politics of money you will see in Eich’s book, a substantial intervention (indeed, the notes are fully one-third the length of the main text itself), come from the visual arts and poetry. Commented upon at the end of his book, the cover image comes from Otis Kaye’s simultaneously playful and biting memento of the Met’s 1961 purchase of Rembrandt’s shimmering 1653 painting, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer. At some 2…
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century
Wartime for the Planet
Malthusian Moments: Introduction
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Malthusian Moments in the Work of John Maynard Keynes
This article tracks the shifting contours of John Maynard Keynes's invocation of certain ideas associated with Thomas Robert Malthus, between 1914 and 1937 especially. These ‘Malthusian moments’ in Keynes's work form a triptych. In pre-war thinking about global population dynamics as a Malthusian ‘devil’ threatening national political and economic stability, Keynes found optimism in the thought that modern political economy could be repurposed to…
Populism and the History of Popular Sovereignty
Political theory tends to react to upsurges in populist politics in the real world, explaining them in turn as largely reactions to contemporary political crises, and in terms of regional styles, American or European most commonly. But for students of political theory, populism in theory and in practice has only been contingently, rather than structurally, related to the history of democratic politics and the growth of popular sovereignty. This c…
August Ludwig von Rochau and Realpolitik as historical political theory
Neither self-styled radical ‘realists’ who reject the sort of liberalism inspired by John Rawls, nor liberal ‘realists’ who reject other forms of apparently utopian politics, properly take the measure of how far their accounts of realism recall the historical political theory of nineteenth-century European Realpolitik. This article sketches the evolution of that style of political theory in the thought of its conceptual pioneer, August Ludwig von…
Law, Liberty and State: Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt on the Rule of Law
Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt are associated with a conservative reaction to the 'progressive' forces of the twentieth century. Each was an acute analyst of the juristic form of the modern state and the relationship of that form to the idea of liberty under a system of public, general law. Hayek had the highest regard for Schmitt's understanding of the rule of law state despite Schmitt's hostility to it, and he owed the distinction he drew in his …
The Weimar Century: German Emigrés and the Ideological Foundations of the Cold War
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2015.1089055
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theory of Dictatorship
This chapter reconstructs the intellectual-historical background to Carl Schmitt’s well-known analysis of the problem of dictatorship and the powers of the Reichspräsident under the Weimar Constitution. The analysis focuses both on Schmitt’s wartime propaganda work, concerning a distinction between the state of siege and dictatorship, as well as on his more general analysis of modern German liberalism. It demonstrates why Schmitt attempted to pro…
The Scandal of Reason: A Critical Theory of Political Judgment
Lineages of Empire: The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought
Recently there has been an explosion of academic and popular interest in the history of how Britons have thought about their Empire. This book focuses on the ways in which the intellectual history and political thought of modern Britain have been saturated with imperial concerns. The chapters address thematic questions about size and scale, race, colonial emigration, and the ideological uses of the classical tradition, questions that are crucial …
Time for Sympathy: Some Thoughts on the 250th Anniversary of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments
Students of political economy are of course very familiar with Adam Smith, but often in the same way that students of sociology are familiar with the works of Max Weber. He is canonical, a founding
Modern Social Imaginaries by Charles Taylor The Modern Self in the Labyrinth: Politics and the Entrapment Imagination by Eyal Chowers (review)
[MW5 8.1 (2008) 111-127] ISSN 1470-8078 Book Reviews Charles Taylor, Modem Social Imaginaries (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004), 215pp. ISBN 0-82233-255-8. £14.50. Eyal Chowers, The Modem Self in the Labyrinth: Politics and the Entrapment Imagina tion (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), 250pp. ISBN 0-67401-330-1.£32.50. Max Weber famously talked about the difficulties of maintaining an autonomous existence under the bu…
The Enchantments of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics by Jane Bennett (review)
Book Reviews 245 Jane Bennett, The Enchantments of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. viii + 213. ISBN 0-691-08812-8.£13.95. The idea of modern life as critically disenchanted, or literally de-magified (Entzau berung) is, of course, a canonically Weberian trope, and the possible choices open to any who wish to maintain a sense of personality in this bureaucratized world are among…
The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England by Dror Wahrman Becoming Historical: Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin by John…
268 Max Weber Studies than declarations, legislation, and constitutions. The latter have indeterminate pur chase, and might even constitute ruses to mislead external agencies form the more pedestrian and opaque realities of state power. Each of the case studies is of high quality and refreshingly theoretically engaged (as opposed to empirical and comparative in approach). I will finish with a few criti cal comments, none of which should be taken …
The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece by Kurt Raaflaub , Renate Franciscono (review)
[MWS 6.2 (2006) 305-311] ISSN 1470-8078 Book Reviews Kurt Raaflaub, The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (trans. Renate Franciscono; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, rev. edn, 2004), pp. 427. ISBN 0226701018. $55.00. When Max Weber wrote in his celebrated lecture on the decline of the ancient world that the problems of the ancients and the moderns were so different that there was nothing to be learned about our current situation from a…
Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society
Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society. By Sung Ho Kim. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 224p. $60.00. The idea that a healthy and vibrant civil society provides an essential basis for democratic polities has become a mainstay of contemporary political theory. The so-called civil society argument has been put forward as transcending a rather blunt dichotomy between liberal individualism and Marxian collectivism. Current interest in this…
States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects
What is Political Theory
Feature review
Revisiting the Rights of Man: Georg Jellinek on Rights and the State
A century has passed since the publication in Germany of a now famous essay on the rights of man by the Heidelberg professor of public law, Georg Jellinek. Over the course of that century, although a “rights revolution” has undoubtedly taken place, numerous practical problems remain in trying to enforce the basic proposition that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” Such problems have led one recent commentator to sug…
The Strategic-Relational View of the State
This paper seeks to highlight the main elements of the ‘strategic-relational’ approach to (Marxist) state theory, developed particularly by Bob Jessop. The legacy of Nicos Poulantzas in particular is singled out for its importance in laying the foundations for such an approach. This is followed by a discussion of Jessop and his development of many ideas bequeathed by Poulantzas, culminating in various moves toward a strategic-relational analysis.…
Carl Schmitt's Political Theory of Representation
This paper suggests that by illustrating the importance of the concept of representation to his thought, the better known theories of the state and the constitution to be found in Schmitt's work are more easily comprehensible. Furthermore, the paper argues that Schmitt's thoughts on these subjects develop from an early and "personalist" account of representation, towards a more mainstream constitutional theory, through an interpretation of the wr…
Multicultural Citizenship: The Limitations of Liberal Democracy
What is Political Theory
Malthusian Moments: Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Malthusian Moments in the Work of John Maynard Keynes
This article tracks the shifting contours of John Maynard Keynes's invocation of certain ideas associated with Thomas Robert Malthus, between 1914 and 1937 especially. These ‘Malthusian moments’ in Keynes's work form a triptych. In pre-war thinking about global population dynamics as a Malthusian ‘devil’ threatening national political and economic stability, Keynes found optimism in the thought that modern political economy could be repurposed to…
August Ludwig von Rochau and Realpolitik as historical political theory
Neither self-styled radical ‘realists’ who reject the sort of liberalism inspired by John Rawls, nor liberal ‘realists’ who reject other forms of apparently utopian politics, properly take the measure of how far their accounts of realism recall the historical political theory of nineteenth-century European Realpolitik. This article sketches the evolution of that style of political theory in the thought of its conceptual pioneer, August Ludwig von…
The Scandal of Reason: A Critical Theory of Political Judgment
Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society
Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society. By Sung Ho Kim. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 224p. $60.00. The idea that a healthy and vibrant civil society provides an essential basis for democratic polities has become a mainstay of contemporary political theory. The so-called civil society argument has been put forward as transcending a rather blunt dichotomy between liberal individualism and Marxian collectivism. Current interest in this…
Revisiting the Rights of Man: Georg Jellinek on Rights and the State
A century has passed since the publication in Germany of a now famous essay on the rights of man by the Heidelberg professor of public law, Georg Jellinek. Over the course of that century, although a “rights revolution” has undoubtedly taken place, numerous practical problems remain in trying to enforce the basic proposition that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” Such problems have led one recent commentator to sug…
From moralism to modernism: Robert Michels on the history, theory and sociology of patriotism
Robert Michels is best known as the author of a classic work of political sociology, Political Parties. However, not only are his voluminous other writings typically sidelined in most commentary, but his quite substantial writings on the subject of patriotism have been the subject of almost total neglect. This paper examines these writings and suggests that Michels's analyses of patriotism can indeed best be interpreted within the context of his …
The Political Thought of Isaiah Berlin
Typically evaluated for the merits or otherwise of his famous account of ‘value pluralism’, Isaiah Berlin's more general political thought is less often discussed. However, broader reflection sheds light on three crucial elements necessary for a proper understanding of Berlin's work. First, it shows the importance and context of his analysis of Marx and Marxism in providing the basis for his distinction between pluralism and monism. Secondly, thr…
Wartime for the Planet
Time for Sympathy: Some Thoughts on the 250th Anniversary of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments
Students of political economy are of course very familiar with Adam Smith, but often in the same way that students of sociology are familiar with the works of Max Weber. He is canonical, a founding
Feature review
Between Description and Explanation in State Theory: Rethinking Marx and Weber
Although studying the state occupies a central place in historical sociology. traditional conceptualizations have tended to be an 'either-or' choice between Marxist or Weberian approaches. The differences between contemporary versions of these paradigms, however, seem greatly overstated. Indeed, sophisticated development of state theory in recent years has been precipitated by a convergence between the two schools of thought. After examining lead…
The Strategic-Relational View of the State
This paper seeks to highlight the main elements of the ‘strategic-relational’ approach to (Marxist) state theory, developed particularly by Bob Jessop. The legacy of Nicos Poulantzas in particular is singled out for its importance in laying the foundations for such an approach. This is followed by a discussion of Jessop and his development of many ideas bequeathed by Poulantzas, culminating in various moves toward a strategic-relational analysis.…
Multicultural Citizenship: The Limitations of Liberal Democracy
Between Description and Explanation in State Theory: Rethinking Marx and Weber
Although studying the state occupies a central place in historical sociology. traditional conceptualizations have tended to be an 'either-or' choice between Marxist or Weberian approaches. The differences between contemporary versions of these paradigms, however, seem greatly overstated. Indeed, sophisticated development of state theory in recent years has been precipitated by a convergence between the two schools of thought. After examining lead…
The Political Thought of Isaiah Berlin
Typically evaluated for the merits or otherwise of his famous account of ‘value pluralism’, Isaiah Berlin's more general political thought is less often discussed. However, broader reflection sheds light on three crucial elements necessary for a proper understanding of Berlin's work. First, it shows the importance and context of his analysis of Marx and Marxism in providing the basis for his distinction between pluralism and monism. Secondly, thr…
Karl Marx and Historical Sociology
Rethinking Franz Neumann’s route to Behemoth
This chapter discusses the thought of Franz Neumann, up to and including the publication of his famous work Behemoth in 1942. It shows how Neumann's legal and constitutional ideas developed largely from Schmitt's terms of reference, and how his account of rationality and the modern state drew upon Weber. This cross-fertilization of conceptual ideas, coupled with his own political sympathy for a socialist state under a fully democratized Weimar Co…
From moralism to modernism: Robert Michels on the history, theory and sociology of patriotism
Robert Michels is best known as the author of a classic work of political sociology, Political Parties. However, not only are his voluminous other writings typically sidelined in most commentary, but his quite substantial writings on the subject of patriotism have been the subject of almost total neglect. This paper examines these writings and suggests that Michels's analyses of patriotism can indeed best be interpreted within the context of his …
The state of the political: Conceptions of politics and the state in the thought of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Franz Neumann
Feature review
Revisiting the Rights of Man: Georg Jellinek on Rights and the State
A century has passed since the publication in Germany of a now famous essay on the rights of man by the Heidelberg professor of public law, Georg Jellinek. Over the course of that century, although a “rights revolution” has undoubtedly taken place, numerous practical problems remain in trying to enforce the basic proposition that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” Such problems have led one recent commentator to sug…
Divided by a common language
Defining Germany: The 1848 Frankfurt Parliamentarians and National Identity
Carl Schmitt's Political Theory of Representation
This paper suggests that by illustrating the importance of the concept of representation to his thought, the better known theories of the state and the constitution to be found in Schmitt's work are more easily comprehensible. Furthermore, the paper argues that Schmitt's thoughts on these subjects develop from an early and "personalist" account of representation, towards a more mainstream constitutional theory, through an interpretation of the wr…
Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society
Max Weber's Politics of Civil Society. By Sung Ho Kim. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 224p. $60.00. The idea that a healthy and vibrant civil society provides an essential basis for democratic polities has become a mainstay of contemporary political theory. The so-called civil society argument has been put forward as transcending a rather blunt dichotomy between liberal individualism and Marxian collectivism. Current interest in this…
States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects
What is Political Theory
The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece by Kurt Raaflaub , Renate Franciscono (review)
[MWS 6.2 (2006) 305-311] ISSN 1470-8078 Book Reviews Kurt Raaflaub, The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (trans. Renate Franciscono; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, rev. edn, 2004), pp. 427. ISBN 0226701018. $55.00. When Max Weber wrote in his celebrated lecture on the decline of the ancient world that the problems of the ancients and the moderns were so different that there was nothing to be learned about our current situation from a…
The Enchantments of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics by Jane Bennett (review)
Book Reviews 245 Jane Bennett, The Enchantments of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. viii + 213. ISBN 0-691-08812-8.£13.95. The idea of modern life as critically disenchanted, or literally de-magified (Entzau berung) is, of course, a canonically Weberian trope, and the possible choices open to any who wish to maintain a sense of personality in this bureaucratized world are among…
The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England by Dror Wahrman Becoming Historical: Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin by John…
268 Max Weber Studies than declarations, legislation, and constitutions. The latter have indeterminate pur chase, and might even constitute ruses to mislead external agencies form the more pedestrian and opaque realities of state power. Each of the case studies is of high quality and refreshingly theoretically engaged (as opposed to empirical and comparative in approach). I will finish with a few criti cal comments, none of which should be taken …
Modern Social Imaginaries by Charles Taylor The Modern Self in the Labyrinth: Politics and the Entrapment Imagination by Eyal Chowers (review)
[MW5 8.1 (2008) 111-127] ISSN 1470-8078 Book Reviews Charles Taylor, Modem Social Imaginaries (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004), 215pp. ISBN 0-82233-255-8. £14.50. Eyal Chowers, The Modem Self in the Labyrinth: Politics and the Entrapment Imagina tion (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004), 250pp. ISBN 0-67401-330-1.£32.50. Max Weber famously talked about the difficulties of maintaining an autonomous existence under the bu…
Lineages of Empire: The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought
Recently there has been an explosion of academic and popular interest in the history of how Britons have thought about their Empire. This book focuses on the ways in which the intellectual history and political thought of modern Britain have been saturated with imperial concerns. The chapters address thematic questions about size and scale, race, colonial emigration, and the ideological uses of the classical tradition, questions that are crucial …
Time for Sympathy: Some Thoughts on the 250th Anniversary of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments
Students of political economy are of course very familiar with Adam Smith, but often in the same way that students of sociology are familiar with the works of Max Weber. He is canonical, a founding
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theory of Dictatorship
This chapter reconstructs the intellectual-historical background to Carl Schmitt’s well-known analysis of the problem of dictatorship and the powers of the Reichspräsident under the Weimar Constitution. The analysis focuses both on Schmitt’s wartime propaganda work, concerning a distinction between the state of siege and dictatorship, as well as on his more general analysis of modern German liberalism. It demonstrates why Schmitt attempted to pro…
The Scandal of Reason: A Critical Theory of Political Judgment
Law, Liberty and State: Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt on the Rule of Law
Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt are associated with a conservative reaction to the 'progressive' forces of the twentieth century. Each was an acute analyst of the juristic form of the modern state and the relationship of that form to the idea of liberty under a system of public, general law. Hayek had the highest regard for Schmitt's understanding of the rule of law state despite Schmitt's hostility to it, and he owed the distinction he drew in his …
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