Dr Alan Kahan

Assistant Professor

Fields of Expertise

  • Modern French History

  • The History of Political Thought

  • European Intellectual History

Education

  • B. A. Princeton University

  • Ph. D. University of Chicago

Other current posts

  • Adjunct Professor, American Business School of Paris

  • Adjunct Professor, Skidmore College Paris Program

Previous experience

Professor of History, Director of Graduate Studies in History, and Director of the European Studies Program, Florida International University

Selected Publications

Books

  • Mind vs. Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism, forthcoming, Transaction Publishers, December, 2009

  • Alexis de Tocqueville, forthcoming, Continuum Press, December, 2009

  • Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003

  • Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville, original edition Oxford University Press, 1992, paperback edition, Transaction Publishers, 2001

Edited Books

  • On Liberty, with Supporting Documents, by John Stuart Mill, a new edition with introduction, Bedford-St. Martin's Press, 2008

  • The Tocqueville Reader, edited and with an introduction by Alan Kahan and Olivier Zunz, Blackwell, 2002

Translations

  • Benjamin Constant, Commentary on Filangieri's Work, the first English translation, Liberty Fund, in progress

  • Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution, a new translation, The University of Chicago Press: volume one, 1998, volume two, 2001. Paperback edition of volume one, 2004

Recent articles and chapters

  • "Tocqueville and Colonialism", Forgotten Liberalisms, forthcoming 2010

  • "Tocqueville and Gender Distinctions", Essais de philosophie pénale et de criminologie,vol. 7, 2008

  • "Aristocracy in Tocqueville/De l'aristocratie chez Tocqueville", The Tocqueville Review, March 2007

  • "The War Between Western Intellectuals and Commercial Society", Society, January 2006

  • "Burckhardt and Modernity", in Beitraege zu Jacob Burckhardt, ed. by Andreas Cesana and Lionel Gossman, Munich, 2004.

Website

http://sites.google.com/site/alankahan/

Contact

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News

Dr. Alan Kahan presents his book to the LSE and other universities

December 10, 2009

Dr. Kahan will lecture to the London School of Economics and to the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in January 2010 about his recently published book Mind vs. Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism (Transaction Pub. 2009).

In December Dr. Kahan gave talks about it to the York University Politics department and the Leuven University seminar in Political Theory.

Book details on publisher's website

Forthcoming books of Dr. Alan Kahan

September 5, 2009

Dr. Alan Kahan

Dr. Alan Kahan is expecting the publication of two books in December 2009:

Mind vs. Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism (Transaction Publishers, forthcoming December 2009), an analytical history of the way in which and the reasons why many Western intellectuals have opposed capitalism - and an argument for how this conflict can be tempered. For more information, click here.

Alexis de Tocqueville (Continuum International Publishing Ltd, forthcoming December 2009) provides an account of the French thinker's works in the publisher's series "Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers". For more information, click here.

Dr. Alan Kahan presents a paper at the European Society for the History of Political Thought

July 16, 2009

Dr. Alan Kahan

On July 6th, Alan Kahan presented a paper on "Liberalism and Elitism" at the Inaugural Conference of the European Society for the History of Political Thought, held at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

More information on the conference here.

Chrissie Graham USA
M.A., School of International Relations
Class of 2007

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