Noël O'Sullivan
Noël O'Sullivan is currently Research Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Hull.
He studied at the London School of Economics and Harvard University. In 1967 he joined the Politics Department at Hull University. In 1992 he was given a personal chair in political philosophy at Hull.[1]
In his book on conservatism O'Sullivan argued that "No single unifying idea is to be found in the English conservative tradition, except perhaps a certain scepticism and a pragmatic emphasis". The book also contains chapters on French and German conservatism.[2]
O'Sullivan argued that
civic humanism.[4]
John Gray has called O'Sullivan a "genuine expert on conservative thought and a profound scholar".[5]
Works
- Conservatism (London: Littlehampton, 1976).
- Fascism (London: Dent, 1983).
- Santayana (London: Claridge, 1992).
- European Political Thought since 1945 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
- The Place of Michael Oakeshott in Contemporary Western and Non-Western Thought (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2017).
Notes
- ^ Profile at The University of Hull website
- ^ Noël O'Sullivan, Conservatism (London: Littlehampton, 1976), p. 83.
- ^ Noël O'Sullivan, Fascism (1983), p.37.
- ^ Paul Wilkinson, ‘Review: Fascism by Noel O'Sullivan’, International Affairs, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Summer, 1984), p. 462.
- ^ Noël O'Sullivan at the Bloomsbury Publishing website
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