Symposium 12-13/06/2025 on an intellectual history of legal history
Symposium: An Intellectual History of Legal History (INTELLEX)
Job update: Junior Fellowship
This January 2025, I have started my Junior Fellowship awarded by the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence "Alexander von Humboldt". For six months my project on "Hermann Conring's Teaching of Legal History" will be hosted at the Institut für Fränkische Landesgeschichte, located in this enchanting Thurnau Castle. This is part of a larger... Continue Reading →
Article on Hobbes’s Library
Very happy to see this article finally published after being accepted with almost no revision in the journal KNOW (submitted February 2022). With Sanne Maekelberg, we reconstruct the private library of the Cavendish family at Chatsworth House and Hardwick Hall, built and used by Hobbes with the angle of privacy studies developed in the Centre... Continue Reading →
What's privacy got to do with moral philosophy? I'm glad you asked. An answer is in my new post on the Centre for Privacy Studies blog.
Privacy and moral philosophy
PhD Thesis
My PhD thesis from the European University Institute is available on the Open Access Repository Cadmus: A Cosmopolitan Republican in the French Revolution: The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots
Research Proposal
research-proposal2 Here is the research proposal I have elaborated for a 3 years PhD research. All comments and feedback are more than welcomed to refine the project.
History of Cosmopolitanism in Western Political Thought
My master's thesis "Element of an Archaeology of Cosmopolitanism in Western Political Thought: A Return to the French Enlightenment" is now available for download on the Danish website of the Department of Political Science, Centre for European Politics, University of Copenhagen. Using Foucault's archaeology and problematisation, coupled with the Cambridge school's contextualism, I investigate the... Continue Reading →
Rousseau et le paradoxe d’une pensée cosmopolitique anti-cosmopolite
Dans la pensée de Rousseau, il y a un paradoxe sur lequel on se penche de plus en plus. Une certaine acrimonie face aux cosmopolites, alors que Rousseau exprime une pensée cosmopolitique en reprenant le grand projet de Saint-Pierre d'une paix universelle et perpétuelle. Projet raillé par un truculent Voltaire il est vrai, dans son... Continue Reading →
Cosmopolite, cosmopolitain, cosmopolitisme: définitions et problèmes
Que faut-il comprendre aujourd'hui des mots cosmopolite, cosmopolitisme ? D'abord si l'on reprend 'histoire de l'apparition de ces mots, il faut bien se rendre à l'évidence que notre conception actuelle est liée au paradigme dominant du nationalisme qui nous pousse à y voir une opposition entre cosmopolitisme et nationalisme. J'avance la thèse, en fait, que... Continue Reading →
Thesis graded
My thesis has been graded and I received the best grade possible in the Danish system: 12. That makes it an A in the ECTS system. Plus an excellent assessment of my work by my supervisor and my 'censor'. I am very happy and very proud. Still, it does not give me a relevant job... Continue Reading →
Idea for a wiki project site on cosmopolitanism
I am fairly new to the blogosphere, and I found a cool blog for academics, especially in the humanities, advising on the latest NICTs for educational purpose--academhack, which is listed in my blog links on the right navigation bar. There's a post about some interesting research tools. Among them, a link to "the state of... Continue Reading →
Setting up a new blog on my research activities
I have decided to set up a new weblog in order to publicise my research activities and personal research themes and projects. I hope to create a network of interest around my activities, make myself known, and get acquainted with other academic research activities on the same field or topic. This blog is also egoistically... Continue Reading →
Frank Ejby Poulsen 