Richard Bourke | |
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Born | |
Citizenship | Irish |
Academic background | |
Education | St. Kilian's German School |
Alma mater | University College, Dublin (BA) St Catherine's College, Oxford King's College, Cambridge (PhD) Birkbeck College, London (BA) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | |
Institutions | King's College, Cambridge Queen Mary, University of London |
Notable works | Romantic Discourse and Political Modernity Peace in Ireland: The War of Ideas Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke Hegel's World Revolutions |
Website | https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-richard-bourke |
Richard Bourke FBA (born 1965) is a UK-based Irish academic specialising in the history of political ideas. His work spans ancient and modern thought,[1] and is associated with the application of the historical method to political theory.[2][3] He is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.[4] He was formerly Professor of the History of Political Thought and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary, University of London.[5] In July 2018 Bourke was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[6]