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The list Historians of political thought includes Isaiah Berlin, Michael Oakeshott, Leo Strauss, Bernard Bailyn and J. G. A. Pocock. The list consists of 33 members.
  • 1.

    Isaiah Berlin
    British philosopher and social and political theorist (1909–1997)
    Isaiah Berlin
    Overview: Sir Isaiah Berlin OM CBE FBA (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Latvian-born British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas. Although he became increasingly averse to writing ...
    Date of birth: 6 June 1909
    Date of death: 5 November 1997
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Historian
    Gender: Male
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    People from Headington 10T
    20th-century British philosophers 250T
    British social commentators 157T
  • 2.

    Michael Oakeshott
    British philosopher (1901–1990)
    Michael Oakeshott
    Overview: Michael Joseph Oakeshott FBA (11 December 1901 – 19 December 1990) was an English philosopher and political theorist who wrote about philosophy of history, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, philosophy ...
    Date of birth: 11 December 1901
    Date of death: 19 December 1990
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    British male non-fiction writers 73T
    English male non-fiction writers 1,748T
    20th-century British non-fiction writers 191T
  • 3.

    Leo Strauss
    Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
    Leo Strauss
    Overview: Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss ...
    Date of birth: 20 September 1899
    Date of death: 18 October 1973
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Carl Schmitt scholars 18T
    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
    American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
  • 4.

    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian (1922–2020)
    Bernard Bailyn
    Overview: Bernard Bailyn (9 September 1922 – 7 August 2020) was an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. He was a professor at Harvard University from ...
    Date of birth: 9 September 1922
    Date of death: 7 August 2020
    Age: 97 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Historian
    Gender: Male
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    Historians from Connecticut 3T
    2020 deaths 11,737T
    21st-century American male writers 3,233T
  • 5.

    Peter Laslett
    English historian
    Overview: Thomas Peter Ruffell Laslett CBE FBA (18 December 1915 – 8 November 2001) was an English historian.
    Date of birth: 18 December 1915
    Date of death: 8 November 2001
    Age: 85 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Philosopher
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century English male writers 1,328T
    English male non-fiction writers 1,748T
    20th-century English historians 340T
  • 6.

    J. G. A. Pocock
    New Zealand historian (1924–2023)
    J. G. A. Pocock
    Overview: John Greville Agard Pocock ONZM (7 March 1924 – 12 December 2023) was a New Zealand historian of political thought. He was especially known for his studies of republicanism in the early modern period ...
    Date of birth: 7 March 1924
    Date of death: 12 December 2023
    Age: 99 (age at death)
    Nationality: New Zealander
    Occupation: Historian
    Gender: Male
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    Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy 642T
    British emigrants to New Zealand 145T
    New Zealand historians 184T
  • 7.

    Raymond Geuss
    British philosopher
    Overview: Raymond Geuss (born 1946), Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, is a political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy. Geuss is primarily ...
    Date of birth: 1946
    Age: 78
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Philosopher
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    Habermas scholars 5T
    21st-century American philosophers 490T
    20th-century American philosophers 713T
  • 8.

    David Armitage
    British historian
    David Armitage
    Overview: David Armitage (born 1965) is a British historian who has written on international and intellectual history. He is chair of the history department and Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard ...
    Date of birth: 1965
    Age: 59
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Historian
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    Morningside Australian Football Club players 36T
    Australian rules footballers from Queensland 259T
    Historians of the British Isles 58T
  • 9.

    Annelien de Dijn
    Dutch historian
    Overview: Annelien De Dijn (born 1977) is a Belgian historian of political thought. She is Professor of Modern Political History at Utrecht University.
    Date of birth: 1977
    Age: 47
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  • 10.

    José Álvarez Junco
    Spanish historian
    José Álvarez Junco
    Overview: José Álvarez Junco (born 1942) is a Spanish historian, emeritus professor of the History of Thought and Political and Social Movements at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He is an expert in ...
    Date of birth: 1942
    Age: 82
    Nationality: Spanish
    Occupation: Historian
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  • 11.

    Jan-Werner Müller
    German historian and political scientist
    Jan-Werner Müller
    Overview: Jan-Werner Müller is a German political philosopher and historian of political ideas working at Princeton University.
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Philosopher
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  • 12.

    Howard J. Wiarda
    American academic
    Overview: Howard J. Wiarda (1939 – 2015) was the Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations and Founding Head of the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia and major figure in the study ...
    Date of birth: 1939
    Date of death: 2015
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Historian
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  • 13.
    José Luis Villacañas
    Overview: José Luis Villacañas Berlanga (born in 1955) is a Spanish political philosopher and historian of political ideas.
    Date of birth: 1955
    Age: 69
    Occupation: Philosopher
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  • 14.

    Robert Garner
    British political scientist, political theorist, and intellectual historian
    Robert Garner
    Overview: Robert Garner (born 1960) is a British political scientist, political theorist, and intellectual historian. He has been based in the politics department at the University of Leicester for most of his ...
    Date of birth: 1960
    Age: 64
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Philosopher
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  • 15.

    Alan Ryan
    British philosopher
    Overview: Alan James Ryan FBA (born 1940) is a British philosopher. He was Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford. He was also Warden of New College, Oxford from 1996 to 2009. He retired as Professor ...
    Date of birth: 9 May 1940
    Age: 84
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Philosopher
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    20th-century British philosophers 250T
    Philosophers of social science 277T
    People educated at Christ's Hospital 244T
  • 16.

    Gregory Claeys
    British political theorist
    Overview: Gregory Claeys (born 18 August 1953) is Professor of the History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of books on British intellectual and political history.
    Date of birth: 18 August 1953
    Age: 71
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Philosopher
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    University of Hanover faculty 49T
    British political philosophers 59T
    British political theorists 39T
  • 17.

    James Tully (philosopher)
    Canadian philosopher
    Overview: James Hamilton Tully FRSC (born 1946) is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy at the University of Victoria, Canada. Tully is also a Fellow ...
    Date of birth: 1946
    Age: 78
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Philosopher
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    Indigenous studies in Canada 5T
    University of Victoria faculty 101T
    Canadian political philosophers 41T
  • 18.

    Joseph Cropsey
    American philosopher
    Overview: Joseph Cropsey (New York, August 27, 1919 – Washington, D.C., July 1, 2012) was an American political philosopher and emeritus professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he was ...
    Date of birth: 27 August 1919
    Date of death: 1 July 2012
    Age: 92 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Philosopher
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    21st-century American philosophers 490T
    20th-century American philosophers 713T
    2012 deaths 8,756T
  • 19.

    John Dunn (political theorist)
    British historian (born 1940)
    Overview: John Montfort Dunn (born 9 September 1940) is emeritus Professor of Political Theory at King's College, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Chiba ...
    Date of birth: 9 September 1940
    Age: 84
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Philosopher
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    People educated at Millfield 173T
    British political philosophers 59T
    British political theorists 39T
  • 20.

    C. B. Macpherson
    Canadian political scientist (1911–1987)
    Overview: Crawford Brough Macpherson OC FRHistS FRSC (1911–1987) was an influential Canadian political scientist who taught political theory at the University of Toronto.
    Date of birth: 18 November 1911
    Date of death: 22 July 1987
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: Canadian
    Occupation: Philosopher
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    Canadian political theorists 10T
    Canadian political philosophers 41T
    Political theorists 150T
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