Hugo Drochon 🇺🇦
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Associate Prof Political Theory @NottsPolitics | Author 'Nietzsche's Great Politics' | Co-Director @UoN_CRISPI | Connecting the dots of European politics
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'With another three years to go on his presidency, better to face the RN now, to take the wind out of their sails, than to allow...Le Pen to the Elysée in 2027'😱
Another hot take on the French legislative elections this time over at
@ProSyn
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Promoted!💥🎉🍾
Delighted to say that from the 1 August I will be Associated Professor in Political Theory
@NottsPolitics
!🥳
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Now that we're the 1st August, I'm officially Associate Professor of Political Theory
@NottsPolitics
! 🍾
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The difference between data, information, knowledge, insight, wisdom and conspiracy theory.
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'Blaming Nietzsche for nihilism is like shooting the messenger: Nietzsche diagnosed its arrival, but he never endorsed it. His whole enterprise was about trying to find ways out of it.'
My piece for the
@NewStatesman
@JasonCowleyNS
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Good news from Italy, but then when your candidate looks like Laurence Fishburne you're bound to win!
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I wrote about Walter Kaufmann, the Princeton professor who saved Nietzsche from the Nazis after WWII, for the
@TheTLS
.
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Delighted to announce I'll be a Visiting Fellow at the
@EUI_EU
next spring!🍾🍾🍾
Looking forward to working with
@GuilhotNicolas
on
#conspiracy
from Machiavelli to the Machiavellians
@EUI_History
.
Really excited to engage with the excellent
@inthisEUI
group too 👋
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Thrilled to have our piece 'Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories' with my wonderful colleagues Adam Enders,
@CFarhart
,
@PoliPsyProf
,
@JoeUscinski
and
@KyleLSaunders
published in
@PolBehavior
!💥
Abstract & link👇
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Delighted to have started as Assit Prof in Political Theory
@UniofNottingham
, and have my name - correctly spelt - on my door!
Looking forward to exchanging with my colleagues
@NottsPolitics
@Andreas_Bieler
@DrToddLandman
@pmheywood
and more tagged below!
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💥Really excited that my
@PrincetonUPress
book Nietzsche's Great Politics is going to be translated into Spanish by the Argentine publishing house Adriana Hidalgo, not least because I might be able to read it! 🧐
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📢My new article on
#ConspiracyTheories
with my
@NottsPolitics
colleague Annemarie Walter is now online with
@PolStudies
!🎉
Who's more likely to believe conspiracy theories: US or EU?🧐
Check out the first & largest comparative study👇🏻!
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Great way to start the new year: the Chinese translation of my
@PrincetonUPress
Nietzsche book!💥
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📢📢📢'Some personal news' to start the new term: greatly honoured to join the editorial board of the
@JPolIdeologies
under the new editorship of Mat Humphrey
@NottsPolitics
!💥
I'm responsible for special issues, so if you have any ideas, be in touch! 1/
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Must-read by
@adam_tooze
if you want to understand what's going on between China and the US right now.
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📢📢📢Series Announcement📢📢📢
Really excited to share our
@NottsPolitics
'Future of Ideologies' webinar series in collaboration with
@C4ARR
!💥
Join us by signing up👇 and please share!👍
@mds49
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Looks like a super interesting biography of Foucault's young years in Poitier
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Thrilled to have put together this symposium for
@HEIjournal
on Jan-Werner Muller's new book Democracy Rules!💥
Starting with my Introduction 👇
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Interesting to see that Nietzsche (the white books) has pride of place in Freud's library
@FreudMusLondon
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Really delighted to be a Fellow at the
@RemarqueNYU
this term! 🎉
There's a fantastic line-up of events planned, so keep your eyes peeled.🧐
NYC friends and passers-by: hit me up!💥
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📢Webinar Series Alert!📢
Delighted to announce this year's
@UoN_CRISPI
@NottsPolitics
'Future of Ideologies' series!💥
Starting on the 29 March: Eventbrite registration coming soon, keep your👀peeled!
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Thrilled to see our symposium on Jan-Werner Muller's 'Democracy Rules' has been published in the latest issue of
@HEIjournal
!🎉
Starts with my intro👇
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Thrilled to have edited two book symposia in the latest issue of History of European Ideas
@StAndrewsIIH
, on two fantastic books: Greg Conti's 'Parliament the Mirror of the Nation' and
@HRMcCabe
'John Stuart Mill, Socialist'.🎉
Description👇1/
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The best thing about Fellowship applications is not that you never get them (obvs) but that in being forced to write how great you are you start to believe it 😂😂😂!
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📢CFP for the London Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought
Theme: 'Utopias and Dystopias in the History of Political Thought'💥
Keynote:
@DrDuncanBell
🥳
Deadline: 23 Feb🧐
Apply!🎉
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CfP for the Stanford Graduate Conference in Political Theory!
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Fascinating piece by
@DavidAvromBell
on the Haitian Revolution.
Interesting to note that many of the noble leaders who voted the abolishing of feudalism on 4th August 1789 had invested in the capitalist slave plantations. via
@nybooks
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New Publication! 🔥
My article 'Robert Michels, the iron law of oligarchy and dynamic democracy' is now out with
@JConstellations
!
It's open access too, so there's your weekend reading sorted out 😉
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📢Conference Announcement! 📢💥🔥
Join us next Friday 11 for a fantastic conference on 'Norberto Bobbio and Political Ideologies' at
@NottsPolitics
in collaboration with
@JPolIdeologies
🎉🥳🍾
Line-up👉
Sign-up👉
See you there!👍
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If you haven't yet🤯bought your copy of Nietzsche's Great Politics you can get 50% off now with the code FIFTY during the May
@PrincetonUPress
sale!💥
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Fascinating interview of Pierre Nora in
@Grand_Continent
on his time as editor at
@Gallimard
and of 'Le Débat' with Gauchet, his relation with Foucault, the monumental 'Lieux de mémoire' and why Paris is no longer the intellectual capital it once was
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This is a nice birthday present - looks like my Nietzsche book is coming out in Spanish! 🎉
@InterferenciasE
@AdrianaHidalgoE
@borovinsky
@JavierBurdman
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'Drochon’s Nietzsche...is one of the most creative and imaginative readings of the philosopher’s ideas to have been published for some time.'
Slightly overwhelmed by the review of NGP in History of European Ideas!
@StAndrewsIIH
@PrincetonUPress
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'We have become Nietzsche’s “last men"'.
Beautiful piece by
@GavJacobson
on whether 'Children of Men' is our present in the
@NewStatesman
, confirming the oft-misunderstood ending to Fukuyama's End of History.
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Powerful piece by
@fotoole
on
#WilliamBarr
's authoritarian Catholicism, that places God above the law, in the
@nybooks
.
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So Macron and Le Pen tied at c.25% of voting intentions for the first round of the Presidential election next year, with Macron wining the second round 54-46.
No left-wing candidate would beat Le Pen in the second round, only right-wing ones.
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Great review by John Gray, discussing Hobbes and Rousseau, in the
@NewStatesman
of Graeger and Wengrow's new book.
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Honoured to be on the editorial board of History of European Ideas
@StAndrewsIIH
!🎉
I'm organising book symposia, so let me know if you have any ideas.🧐
First one just out👇, on Nadia Urbinati's Me the People
@Harvard_Press
!💥
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Should be a good book for those interested in French intellectual history
@artgoldhammer
@samuelmoyn
@DavidAvromBell
@daniel_dsj2110
@OrRosenboim
@jmhamburger
@Tocqueville21
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Super
@midspolthought
graduate conference on 'the public-private divide in the history of political thought' coming up
@NottsPolitics
on 17 Oct with
@DrHannahDawson
as keynote💥
Abstracts due by 1 August👇🏻get them in!🎉
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📢Assistant Professor in Political Theory - focus on history of political thought - at Durham! 🎉
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'The problem with morality...is that it can’t simply be willed'
Delighted to review
@samuelmoyn
and Alan Kahan's (
@PrincetonUPress
) books on liberalism in the latest issue of the
@TheTLS
!
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Great
@history_thought
London Graduate Conference on 'Property and Power' on the 22 June, check it out!
@qmHPT
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'Pierre Rosanvallon thinks that is it the latter we have most to fear from [Tocqueville's soft despotism]. Indeed, he thinks we are already in it.'
Delighted to see my review of Rosanvallon's 'Good Government' in print!
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Absolutely delighted to have received this beautiful Spanish edition of Nietzsche's Great Politics! 😍
With thanks to
@JavierBurdman
for the translation and
@borovinsky
of
@InterferenciasE
for the introduction!
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4am last night, strange scratching coming from the chimney
Open the trap, a pigeon comes out 🐦
More, heavier scratching
Open trap, an Eagle-Owl comes out 🦉
I through I was in Harry Potter 🧙♂️!
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📢Job announcement!📢
Join the growing number of political theorists at
@NottsPolitics
with a position of Assistant Professor in Political Theory (Teaching & Curriculum)!💥
We're a friendly bunch!😃
Any questions DM me👉
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Really sad to hear of the passing of Tracy Strong yesterday. He was one of the biggest influences on my Nietzsche work, and kindly read my manuscript that became Nietzsche's Great Politics. He was generous, brilliant and great fun anytime we had the chance to hang out.
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Many congratulations
@JoshuaCherniss
, really looking forward to reading and discussing this with you! 🍾
@PrincetonUPress
@robtempio
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This year's Quentin Skinner lecture
@CRASSHlive
@cambridge_cpt
will be given by
@katforrester
: ‘In and against the state’: revolutionary feminism during deindustrialisation'.
Looks super-interesting do sign-up!👇👍🎉
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Proofs of Nietzsche's Great Politics
@PrincetonUPress
in Spanish!💥
Coming out next year with
@ahidalgoeditora
@AdrianaHidalgoE
🎉
With an amazing translation by
@JavierBurdman
and thanks to
@borovinsky
!🙏
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🚨50% off Nietzsche's Great Politics thanks to the
@PrincetonUPress
sale!🎉
Use the code 'MAY50'💥
👇👍🍾
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On my way to London for a two-day conference on 'The History of Political Thought in the Age of Ideologies 1789-1989'
@qmHPT
- should be good!
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#Macron
back to pre-
#YellowVests
levels of support, thanks to recent left-leaning measures popular with ex-Socialist voters.
Neither
#Hollande
nor
#Sarkozy
were able to stop the downward spiral of their ratings.
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Next Weds 5 July
@luke_ilott
will be presenting at the IHR ECR Seminar in the History of Political Ideas on 'Michel Foucault and the Politics of Coalition', 5:30pm, North-West Wing Lecture Theatre, G22, UCL.
Looks super interesting, sign-up👇!
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Super event coming up at the
@RemarqueNYU
on
@zeithistoriker
's new book, with
@RanaForoohar
and
@claraemattei
👇check it out!💥
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Exactly the email you want to receive!💥
Really excited that Nietzsche's Great Politics
@PrincetonUPress
is coming out in Spanish with
@AdrianaHidalgoE
.
Thanks to
@JavierBurdman
for the brilliant translation and to
@borovinsky
for commissioning it!🎉
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Great
@CamGradPTIH
@cambridge_cpt
Graduate Political Thought Conference on 'Political by Nature: Political Thought Through the Lens of the Anthropocene' coming up on the 20 June, with keynote by Dipesh Chakrabarty👇📷 🎉
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Did you know that Nikos Kazantzakis, whose tomb at Heraklion is below, wrote his PhD on 'Friedrich Nietzsche on the Philosophy of Right and the State' at the Sorbonne in 1909?
He also translated Thus Spoke Zarathustra into Greek.
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Syphilis, madness and horses: my review of Sue Prideaux's new biography in
@IrishTimes
!
@MartinDoyleIT
@IrishTimesBooks
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'What threatens democracy is not erroneous beliefs or fake news but a social and economic crisis.'
Lovely piece by
@GuilhotNicolas
on
#Trump
and
#conspiracytheories
in the
@LRB
, using this Sallut edition from
@PrincetonUPress
👇
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'Better to be feared than to be loved, but avoid being hated'.
Channelling Machiavelli in my
@guardianopinion
piece on Macron and the
#GilletsJaunes
.
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Delighted to make the cover of this week's
@NewStatesman
.
@EmmanuelMacron
: Machiavelli's fox or lion?
@JasonCowleyNS
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🚄Paris - > London
@Eurostar
We're moving to London!
@PBlistene
🇫🇷 🇬🇧
See all our UK-based friends soon 🎉
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'If we have a complete edition of Nietzsche’s work today...it is thanks to a communist.'😱
Great fun reviewing Philipp Felsch's excellent How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold (
@politybooks
) for
@EngelsbergIdeas
!💥
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Thrilled to say that Sean Fleming, author of the brilliant 'Leviathan on a Leash' (
@PrincetonUPress
2020), has joined us
@NottsPolitics
@UoN_CRISPI
as a
@UniofNottingham
Research Fellow, helping to grow the political theory community here!💥
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