Hochstrasser, Tim


Dr Tim Hochstrasser  

Department

Position held

Department of International History

Senior Lecturer in International History

Experience keywords:

history of music; European Enlightenment; intellectual history; historiography; early modern Europe; Germany; France; Britain; 18th century; history of political and social thought

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My research focuses on the two-way relationship between intellectual life and political action in the history of early modern Europe, and above all on the use made of contemporary historical and philosophical writing to legitimate and defend changing concepts of sovereignty and political structure. The major case study for this research is the European Enlightenment (c. 1680-1830), with a particular focus on France and Germany.

My recent research has developed three linked pathways: the development of natural law discourses in the early German Enlightenment, which provided the focus for my first book, the scope and limits of Eighteenth-Century cosmopolitanism which I am exploring through continuing work on the Huguenot Diaspora, and the interface between political economy and practical politics in France in the era before the French Revolution. I also have research interests in the social history of music and in general historiography that extends beyond the range of the 'long' Eighteenth Century.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Creative Industries and Culture

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Britain; France; Germany

Languages:

German [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]; French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7092

Publications

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2011

Hochstrasser, Timothy (2011) 'More long-lasting than bronze?': statues, public commemoration and representations of monarchy in Diderot's political thought. In: Cuttica, Cesare and Burgess, Glenn, (eds.) Monarchism and absolutism in early modern Europe. Pickering & Chatto, London, UK, pp. 14-262. ISBN 9781848931985

2006

Hochstrasser, Timothy (2006) Physiocracy and the politics of laissez-faire. In: Goldie, Mark and Wokler, Robert, (eds.) The Cambridge history of eighteenth-century political thought. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 419-442. ISBN 9780521374224

Hochstrasser, Timothy (2006) The institutionalisation of philosophy in Continental Europe. In: Haakonssen, Knud, (ed.) The Cambridge history of eighteenth-century philosophy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 69-96. ISBN 9780521418546

2003

Hochstrasser, Timothy and Schröder, Peter, (eds.) (2003) Early modern natural law theories: contexts and strategies in early Enlightenment. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands. ISBN 1402015690

Hochstrasser, Timothy and Schröder, Peter (2003) Introduction. In: Hochstrasser, Timothy and Schröder, Peter, (eds.) Early modern natural law theories: contexts and strategies in early Enlightenment. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands. ISBN 1402015690

2002

Hochstrasser, Timothy (2002) 'A college in the air': myth and reality in the foundation story of Downing College, Cambridge. In: Feingold, Mordechai, (ed.) History of universities. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 81-120. ISBN 9780199256365

2000

Hochstrasser, Timothy (2000) Natural law theories in the early enlightenment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 0521661935

1994

Hochstrasser, Timothy (1994) The claims of conscience: natural law theory, obligation and resistance in the Huguenot diaspora. In: Laursen, John Christian, (ed.) New essays on the political thought of the Huguenots of the refuge. E.J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 15-51. ISBN 978 90 04 09986 9

1993

Hochstrasser, Timothy (1993) Conscience and reason: the natural law theory of Jean Barbeyrac. Historical journal, 36 (2). pp. 381-400. ISSN 0018-246X

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