John James Alexander

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

• J. Alexander, Shaw’s Controversal Socialism, Florida: University of Florida Press, (2009).
• J. Alexander, Frederick Bulmer: A Life, London: Cooke and Bulmer, (2009).

Book Chapters

• J. Alexander, “The State is the Attempt to Strip Metaphor Out of Politics”, Michael Oakeshott on Authority, Governance and the State, E. Kos (Eds.), pp. 11-44, London: Palgrave Macmillan (2019)
• J. Alexander, “Socialism”, George Bernard Shaw in Context, B. Kent (Eds.), pp. 230-237, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2015)
• J. Alexander, “The History of Political Philosophy”, Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy, A. Fiala (Eds.), pp. 19-31, London: Bloomsbury (2015)
• J. Alexander, “Imitiato Pilati et Christi in Modern Historical Drama”, The Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, S. Prickett (Eds.), pp. 550-563, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2014)

Book Reviews

• J. Alexander, “Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom” , by J.W. Scott, New York: Columbia University Press, 176, 2019, in Euroepaan Legacy, 26, (2021).
• J. Alexander, “Michael Oakeshott and the Cambridge School on the History of Political Thought” , by M.P. Thompson, Routledge, 182, 2019, in Cosmos and Taxis, 8, (2020).
• J. Alexander, “Changing the subject: Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno” , by R. Guess, Cambridge MA: Harvard Univ Press, 334, 2017, in Philosophy, 94, (2019).

Journal Publications

• J. Alexander, “Three arguments relevant to the history and theory of monarchy”, History of European Ideas., 1-17 (2021)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “Reaction in Politics”, J of the Philosophy of History, 14, 3-26 (2020)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “Radical, Sceptical and Liberal Enlightenment”, J of the Philosophy of History, 14, 257-283 (2020)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “A Conjectural History of Liberalism”, Cosmos+Taxis, 8, 2-17 (2020)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “Empire as a Subject for Philosophy”, Philosophy, 94, 243-270 (2019)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “Three Ideas of the University”, European Legacy, 24, 492-510 (2019)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “A Genealogy of Political Theory: A Polemic”, Contemporary Political Theory, 18, 402-423 (2019)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “Reaction in Politics”, J of the Philosophy of History., 1-24 (2018)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “Who was the First Philosopher? Or, How Many Does It Take?”, Think, 16, 51-57 (2017)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “A Systematic Theory of Tradition”, J of the Philosophy of History, 10, 1-28 (2016)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “The Philosophy of Political History in Oakeshott and Collingwood”, J of the Philosophy of History, 10, 279-303 (2016)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “The Cambridge School, c. 1875 – c. 1975”, History of Political Thought, 37, 360-386 (2016)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “A Dialectical Definition of Conservatism”, Philosophy, 91, 215-232 (2016)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “The Fundamental Contradiction of Cosmopolitanism”, European Legacy, 21, 168-183 (2016)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “A Sketch of a System of Theory and Practice”, Political Studies Review, 13, 485-493 (2015)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “Three Major Ideologies of Liberalism, Socialism and Conservatism”, Political Studies, 63, 980-994 (2015)  PDF
• J. Alexander, “Notes Towards a Definition of Politics”, Philosophy, 89, 273-300 (2014)
• J. Alexander, “The Contradictions of Conservatism”, Government and Opposition, 48, 594-616 (2013)
• J. Alexander, “Three Rivel Views of Tradition (Arendt, Oakeshott, MacIntyre)”, J of the Philosophy of History, 6, 20-43 (2012)
• J. Alexander, “The Four Points of the Compass”, Philosophy, 87, 79-107 (2012)
• J. Alexander, “Oakeshott on Hegel’s “Injudicious” Use of the Word “State””, History of Political Thought, 32, 147-176 (2011)