Professor Knud Haakonssen FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2012
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy
- Sections
- Early Modern History to 1850
- Website
- http://knudhaakonssen.com/
Summary
Knud Haakonssen was Professor of Philosophy at Boston University 1995-2005 and held the Chair of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex 2005-2012. He has also taught in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Denmark. In semi-retirement he is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of St. Andrews and a Fellow of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt. He holds doctorates from the Universities of Copenhagen and Edinburgh and he is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. The main focus of his current work is the history of natural law and natural rights in the early-modern period. He co-directs a European project on this topic (https://www.uni-erfurt.de/projekte/natural-law-project/) and has published extensively in the field. Work on Enlightenment moral and political thought is ongoing, currently on Scottish, Danish and German material. A key feature of his work is the provision of critical editions of historical sources in intellectual history: http://www.euppublishing.com/series/EETR and http://www.libertyfund.org/search.aspx?dlCat=14
Current post
Professor of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews; Fellow, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Erfurt; Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History, University of Sussex
Past appointments
University of St Andrews Professor of Intellectual History
1970 -
University of Sussex Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History
1970 -
Other Foreign Institutions Fellow, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Erfurt
1970 -
Publications
Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754): Learning and Literature in the Nordic Enlightenment
Ed. Knud Haakonssen, Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen - Published in 2017 by Routledge
The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith
Ed. Knud Haakonssen - Published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
Ed. Knud Haakonssen - Published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press
Enlightenment and Religion: Rational Dissent in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Ed. Knud Haakonssen - Published in 1996 by Cambridge University Press
The Science of a Legislator: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith
Knud Haakonssen - Published in 1989 by Cambridge University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Dr Toby Barnard FBA
The political, social and cultural histories of Ireland and England, c.1600-1800.
Professor Lorraine Daston FBA
History of science, 16th-19th centuries.: probability and statistics; scientific observation; objectivity; formal theories of rationality
Professor Lynn Hunt FBA
French Revolution of 1789; historical methods and epistemology; cultural history; human rights
