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Enoch Powell’s Reading of Nietzsche (2025)
Journal Article
Fear, C. (in press). Enoch Powell’s Reading of Nietzsche. History of European ideas.

Enoch Powell claimed to have been an avid reader of Friedrich Nietzsche in his youth. But what exactly he took from this reading has never been investigated; hitherto there has been only speculation, and some sensationalism, centring upon the more dr... Read More about Enoch Powell’s Reading of Nietzsche.

Michael Oakeshott: Civil association and conservatism (2025)
Book Chapter
Fear, C. (2025). Michael Oakeshott: Civil association and conservatism. In F. Hörcher, & D. Pitt (Eds.), Intellectual Conservatism: From Burke to Scruton (pp. 69-82). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003473985-6

This chapter focuses on some of Michael Oakeshott’s work during the 1950s, when he was Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics (1950–68). It attends especially to Oakeshott’s lecture series, Morality and Politics in Modern Eu... Read More about Michael Oakeshott: Civil association and conservatism.

Taming ‘Black Swans’: A Schmittian Perspective on State-led Crisis Management (2024)
Thesis
Jones, M. (2024). Taming ‘Black Swans’: A Schmittian Perspective on State-led Crisis Management [Doctoral thesis, University of Hull]. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4500680

Using a design-thinking approach to state-led crisis management, this thesis seeks to resolve the contemporary problem of Black Swans; that is, crises that are unprecedented, unexpected, unpredictable, and uncertain.
Due to their nature and composit... Read More about Taming ‘Black Swans’: A Schmittian Perspective on State-led Crisis Management.

The Right Response: Conservative ideas to tackle perennial poverty (2023)
Book
C. Fear, & P. Blond. (Eds.). (2023). The Right Response: Conservative ideas to tackle perennial poverty. ResPublica. https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/the-right-response-conservative-ideas-to-tackle-perennial-poverty/

Foreword (excerpt):
While our view is that political theory has its place—those long-running debates about the balance between equality and freedom, and all the rest of it—we nevertheless share with the parliamentarian authors who have contributed t... Read More about The Right Response: Conservative ideas to tackle perennial poverty.

The General Elections: 2015, 2017, 2019 (2023)
Book Chapter
Fear, C. (2023). The General Elections: 2015, 2017, 2019. Conservative Governments in the Age of Brexit (pp. 47-64). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21464-6_4

This chapter explains the backgrounds, the strategies, and the performance of the Conservatives’ three general election campaigns in 2015, 2017, and 2019. Special attention is given to voting patterns and statistics, which (I argue) reveal more about... Read More about The General Elections: 2015, 2017, 2019.

“Sophists in academic dress: Oakeshott’s ‘The study of “politics” in a university’” (2022)
Journal Article
Fear, C. (2022). “Sophists in academic dress: Oakeshott’s ‘The study of “politics” in a university’”. Cosmos+Taxis, 10(7-8), 62-71. https://cosmosandtaxis.org/

What sort of activity should Politics academics aim to inculcate in their students? Only truth-seeking, logical thinking, and the ability to scrutinize evidence for themselves? Or also the will and ability to perform supposedly beneficial extra-acade... Read More about “Sophists in academic dress: Oakeshott’s ‘The study of “politics” in a university’”.

The ‘dialectical’ theory of conservatism (2020)
Journal Article
Fear, C. (2020). The ‘dialectical’ theory of conservatism. Journal of political ideologies, 25(2), 197-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2020.1750760

Recently, James Alexander has proposed a ‘dialectical definition’ of conservatism which, he believes, goes beyond ‘dispositional’ definitions, such as those proposed by Brennan and Hamlin, and by Martin Beckstein, which are ‘incomplete’.1 Alexander a... Read More about The ‘dialectical’ theory of conservatism.

R. G. Collingwood's overlapping ideas of history (2020)
Journal Article
Fear, C. (2021). R. G. Collingwood's overlapping ideas of history. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341437

Does R. G. Collingwood's theory that concepts in philosophy are organized as “scales of forms” apply to his own work on the nature of history? Or is there some inconsistency between Collingwood's work as a philosopher of history and as a theorist of... Read More about R. G. Collingwood's overlapping ideas of history.

Collingwood's New Leviathan and classical elite theory (2019)
Journal Article
Fear, C. (2019). Collingwood's New Leviathan and classical elite theory. History of European ideas, 45(7), 1029-1044. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2019.1628582

R. G. Collingwood's New Leviathan (1942) presents an account of two ‘dialectical’ political processes that are ongoing in any body politic. Existing scholarship has already covered the first: a dialectic between a ‘social’ and a ‘non-social’ element,... Read More about Collingwood's New Leviathan and classical elite theory.

Book review : A history of modern political thought: the question of interpretation (2018)
Journal Article
Fear, C. (2019). Book review : A history of modern political thought: the question of interpretation [Review of the book] [‘Critics to the left and to the right' : A history of modern political thought: the question of interpretation]. Contemporary Political Theory, 18(Supp 1), 20-23. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-0197-4

"Was he right?" R. G. Collingwood's rapprochement between philosophy and history (2017)
Journal Article
Fear, C. (2017). "Was he right?" R. G. Collingwood's rapprochement between philosophy and history. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 11(3), 408-424. https://doi.org/10.1163/18722636-12341382

© koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2017. R. G. Collingwood's declaration that belief in "eternal questions" in philosophy is "merely a vulgar error, consequent on a kind of historical myopia which, deceived by superficial resemblances, failed to detect... Read More about "Was he right?" R. G. Collingwood's rapprochement between philosophy and history.

William E. Connolly's politics of complexity: a critique (2017)
Journal Article
Fear, C. (2017). William E. Connolly's politics of complexity: a critique. Review of Politics, 79(1), 73-98. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670516000735

Copyright © University of Notre Dame 2017. In recent years, William E. Connolly has argued that the phenomenon of complexity in the physical sciences carries radical implications for political theory: namely, that political theorists should now be re... Read More about William E. Connolly's politics of complexity: a critique.