Théophile Deslauriers

Co-organiser
Department of Politics; University Center for Human Values
Princeton University
Email: [email protected]
Website: Personal / faculty page
Biography
Théophile Deslauriers is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and at the University Centre for Human Values at Princeton University. He studies conquest and imperialism in the history of political thought, especially the relationship between commerce and empire in Early Modern political theory. He has co-organised the Princeton Political Theory Graduate Conference.
Selected publications
- Article · 2026 “Officers without Soldiers”: Henry Sidgwick on Representative Government in the Shadow of Liberal Unionism Modern Intellectual History Henry Sidgwick's theory of representative government and the Liberal Unionist split over Ireland.
- Article · 2025 Edward Carpenter, Ethical Socialism and the Formation of Labour’s Identity History of Political Thought Edward Carpenter's ethical socialism and its influence on the early Labour Party's idea of democracy.
- Article · 2024 Representative government as anti-imperialism: Edward Carpenter's radical critique of Victorian civilization European Journal of Political Theory Edward Carpenter's critique of civilization linked anti-imperialism with representative government. Presented at AGPT 2022
- Article · 2022 Maturity and individuality in the later writings of J.S. Mill: a unified account History of European Ideas
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