Nicolas Guilhot

Professor of Intellectual History
Director of Research, History Department

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"L’innovazione non sono i droni a biofuel", Il Manifesto, 3rd of December 2024.
"The man who lived at the end of history" Why the 20th-century intellectual Ernesto de Martino believed that we should prepare for the apocalypse. The newstatesman 15 February 2024.
“‘A Primitive Kind of Superstition’: The Idea of the Paranoid Style in the 20^th Century,” Journal of the History of Ideas 84, no. 2 (2023): 365-390.
“Conspiracies and the Liberal Imagination,” Social Research 89, no. 3 (2022): 627-649.
“How Not to Save Democracy,” London Review of Books blog, 22 December 2022.
“The Lull: Our Age of Catastrophic Uneventfulness,” The Point, Issue 28, Fall 2022.
“Bad Information,” Boston Review, August 23, 2021. (Ranked in the Top 10 of the most read essays of 2021 in the Boston Review.)
After the Enlightenment: Political Realism and International Relations in the mid-20th Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Daniel Bessner and Nicolas Guilhot, eds. The Decisionist Imagination: Democracy, Sovereignty and the Social Sciences, ed. with Daniel Bessner (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2018).
Brian Schmidt and Nicolas Guilhot, eds. Historiographical Investigations in International Relations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
“Automatic Leviathan: Cybernetics and Politics in Carl Schmitt’s Postwar Writings,” History of the Human Sciences 33, no. 1 (2020): 128-146.