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Overview
My principal area of research has been in the Enlightenment and its critics. I have written two single-authored monographs on this subject, as well as many scholarly journal articles and chapters in edited books on it.
I teach mainly in the history of Western political thought, from Plato to the 20th century. I co-authored a general introduction to this subject in 2019 ("How to Think Politically"), the fruit of over 60 years of experience (by myself and my co-author).
Most recently, I published a book on "The Return of the State".
I also have interests in French political thought and Canadian history and politics.
Publication
2023
- Garrard, G. 2023. We're all Pearsonians now [Book Review]. The Dorchester Review 13(2), pp. 66-71.
- Garrard, G. 2023. Fearful asymmetry: The troubled history of Canada, the US, and NORAD. American Review of Canadian Studies 53(4), pp. 528-544. (10.1080/02722011.2023.2293413)
- Garrard, G. 2023. In search of Conservatism [Book Review]. The Dorchester Review 13(1), pp. 22-30.
2022
- Garrard, G. 2022. The return of the state: And why it is essential for our health, wealth and happiness. London and New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
2021
- Garrard, G. 2021. John Stuart Mill and the liberal idea of Canada. British Journal of Canadian Studies 33(1), pp. 31-46. (10.3828/bjcs.2021.2)
- Garrard, G. 2021. Children of the state: Rousseau’s republican educational theory and child abandonment. History of Education 50(2), pp. 147-160. (10.1080/0046760X.2020.1801863)
2020
- Garrard, G. 2020. Canadian conservatism and the state. Dorchester Review 10(2), pp. 58-67.
- Garrard, G. 2020. Illiberalism and opposition to the enlightenment. In: Sajo, A., Holmes, S. and Uitz, R. eds. Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism. London: Routledge
2019
- Murphy, J. B. and Garrard, G. 2019. How to think politically: sages, scholars and statesmen whose ideas have changed the world. London: Bloomsbury.
2018
- Garrard, G. 2018. Lenin: the Machiavellian Marxist. History Today [Magazine] 68(11), pp. 60-65.
2015
- Garrard, G. 2015. Tilting against counter-enlightenment windmills. Eighteenth-Century Studies 49(1), pp. 77-81. (10.1353/ecs.2015.0045)
2014
- Garrard, G. A. 2014. Rousseau, happiness and human nature. Political Studies 62(1), pp. 70-82. (10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012.00990.x)
2012
- Garrard, G. A. 2012. The status of happiness. International Review of Economics 59(4), pp. 377-387. (10.1007/s12232-012-0156-y)
2008
- Garrard, G. A. 2008. Nietzsche for and against the Enlightenment. The Review of Politics 70(4), pp. 595-608. (10.1017/S0034670508000788)
2007
- Garrard, G. A. 2007. Strange reversal: Isaiah Berlin and the enlightenment. In: Hardy, H. and Crowder, G. eds. The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin. Prometheus Books, pp. 220-38.
2006
- Garrard, G. A. 2006. The Enlightenment and its enemies. American Behavioral Scientist 49(5), pp. 664-680. (10.1177/0002764205282216)
2005
- Garrard, G. A. 2005. Counter-enlightenments: From the eighteenth century to the present. Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought. London: Routledge.
2003
- Garrard, G. A. 2003. Isaiah Berlin's 'Joseph de Maistre'. In: Mali, J. and Wokler, R. eds. Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment. American Philosophical Society, pp. 113-132.
- Garrard, G. A. 2003. Rousseau's counter-enlightenment: a republican critique of the philosophes. Suny Series in Social and Political Thought. New York: State University of New York Press.
2001
- Garrard, G. A. 2001. Joseph de Maistre and Carl Schmitt. In: Lebrun, R. A. ed. Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought, and Influence. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, pp. 220-238.
2000
- Garrard, G. A. 2000. The curious enlightenment of Professor Rorty. Critical Review 14(4), pp. 421-439. (10.1080/08913810008443567)
1996
- Garrard, G. A. 1996. Joseph de Maistre's civilization and its discontents. Journal of the History of Ideas 57(3), pp. 429-446.
Articles
- Garrard, G. 2023. We're all Pearsonians now [Book Review]. The Dorchester Review 13(2), pp. 66-71.
- Garrard, G. 2023. Fearful asymmetry: The troubled history of Canada, the US, and NORAD. American Review of Canadian Studies 53(4), pp. 528-544. (10.1080/02722011.2023.2293413)
- Garrard, G. 2023. In search of Conservatism [Book Review]. The Dorchester Review 13(1), pp. 22-30.
- Garrard, G. 2021. John Stuart Mill and the liberal idea of Canada. British Journal of Canadian Studies 33(1), pp. 31-46. (10.3828/bjcs.2021.2)
- Garrard, G. 2021. Children of the state: Rousseau’s republican educational theory and child abandonment. History of Education 50(2), pp. 147-160. (10.1080/0046760X.2020.1801863)
- Garrard, G. 2020. Canadian conservatism and the state. Dorchester Review 10(2), pp. 58-67.
- Garrard, G. 2018. Lenin: the Machiavellian Marxist. History Today [Magazine] 68(11), pp. 60-65.
- Garrard, G. 2015. Tilting against counter-enlightenment windmills. Eighteenth-Century Studies 49(1), pp. 77-81. (10.1353/ecs.2015.0045)
- Garrard, G. A. 2014. Rousseau, happiness and human nature. Political Studies 62(1), pp. 70-82. (10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012.00990.x)
- Garrard, G. A. 2012. The status of happiness. International Review of Economics 59(4), pp. 377-387. (10.1007/s12232-012-0156-y)
- Garrard, G. A. 2008. Nietzsche for and against the Enlightenment. The Review of Politics 70(4), pp. 595-608. (10.1017/S0034670508000788)
- Garrard, G. A. 2006. The Enlightenment and its enemies. American Behavioral Scientist 49(5), pp. 664-680. (10.1177/0002764205282216)
- Garrard, G. A. 2000. The curious enlightenment of Professor Rorty. Critical Review 14(4), pp. 421-439. (10.1080/08913810008443567)
- Garrard, G. A. 1996. Joseph de Maistre's civilization and its discontents. Journal of the History of Ideas 57(3), pp. 429-446.
Book sections
- Garrard, G. 2020. Illiberalism and opposition to the enlightenment. In: Sajo, A., Holmes, S. and Uitz, R. eds. Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism. London: Routledge
- Garrard, G. A. 2007. Strange reversal: Isaiah Berlin and the enlightenment. In: Hardy, H. and Crowder, G. eds. The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin. Prometheus Books, pp. 220-38.
- Garrard, G. A. 2003. Isaiah Berlin's 'Joseph de Maistre'. In: Mali, J. and Wokler, R. eds. Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment. American Philosophical Society, pp. 113-132.
- Garrard, G. A. 2001. Joseph de Maistre and Carl Schmitt. In: Lebrun, R. A. ed. Joseph de Maistre's Life, Thought, and Influence. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, pp. 220-238.
Books
- Garrard, G. 2022. The return of the state: And why it is essential for our health, wealth and happiness. London and New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
- Murphy, J. B. and Garrard, G. 2019. How to think politically: sages, scholars and statesmen whose ideas have changed the world. London: Bloomsbury.
- Garrard, G. A. 2005. Counter-enlightenments: From the eighteenth century to the present. Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought. London: Routledge.
- Garrard, G. A. 2003. Rousseau's counter-enlightenment: a republican critique of the philosophes. Suny Series in Social and Political Thought. New York: State University of New York Press.
Research
Current Project
Title: "Political Ethics in a Sceptical Age"
Past Projects
Title: "Counter-Enlightenments: From the 18th Century to the Present"
Sponsor: Arts and Humanities Research Board
Duration: 30/09/2003 - 31/07/2004
Title: "Rousseauâs Counter-Enlightenment: A Republican Critique of the Philosophes"
Sponsor: Leverhulme Trust
Duration: 30/09/1999 - 31/07/2000
Teaching
I teach/have taught the following topics:
- Modern Political Thought
- 20th Century Political Thought
- The European Mind in the 20th Century
- The City and the Soul: Plato's Political Philosophy
- Political Ideologies
- Dirty Hands: Problems of Political Ethics
Biography
Career profile
I came to Cardiff University in 1994 as a full-time lecturer from Balliol College, Oxford, where I had been a DPhil student (since 1990) under the supervision of Sir Larry Siedentop and Sir Isaiah Berlin. I am now Professor of Politics at Cardiff. I have also taught at the Central European University, Oxford University, Dartmouth College, Williams College and the American University of Paris. From 2006 until 2018 I taught at the Harvard Summer School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
I have been a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (2000) and the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University (2012).I was a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University in autumn 2012. I was made a fellow if the Royal Historical Society in 2011.
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Specialisms
- History of ideas
- Political theory and political philosophy
