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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

askahan1@gmail.com

 
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