The Faculty
Dr Isaac Nakhimovsky
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Affiliated Lecturer
St Andrew's Street
Cambridge CB2 3AP
Subject groups/Research projects
Departments and Institutes
Teaching
History of Political Thought to c. 1700
History of Political Thought from c. 1700 to c. 1890
Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought since c. 1890.
Key Publications
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Addresses to the German Nation. Edited and translated with Béla Kapossy and Keith Tribe. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, forthcoming, 2012.
The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Reviewed by Frederick Neuhouser, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, November 2011.
Other Publications
"The 'Ignominious Fall of the European Commonwealth': Gentz, Hauterive, and the Armed Neutrality of 1800," in Trade and War: The Neutrality of Commerce in the Interstate System, ed. Koen Stapelbroek. COLLeGIUM: Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Helsinki: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, 2011), 177-90.
"Carl Schmitt's Vattel and the Law of Nations between Enlightenment and Revolution," Grotiana 31 (2010): 141-64.
"Vattel's Theory of the International Order: Commerce and the Balance of Power in the Law of Nations," History of European Ideas 33, no. 2 (2007): 157-73.
"The Enlightened Epicureanism of Jacques Abbadie: L'Art de se connoître soi-même and the Morality of Self-Interest," History of European Ideas 29, no. 2 (2003): 1-14.