Professor Peter Thomas
Head of Department / Professor - History of Political Thought
Marie Jahoda 229
- Email: peter.thomas2@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267573
- Politics
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
Professor Peter D. Thomas is an historian of political thought, an historian of philosophy and a political theorist.
He has studied and worked at the University of Queensland, Freie Universität Berlin, L’Università “Federico II”, Naples, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Vienna. He has been a member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, a research fellow at the University of Helsinki, and the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, and a recipient of Australian, British, German, Italian and Dutch research fellowships.
Qualifications:
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- PhD (Amsterdam)
- MA (Research)
- BA (Hons) (UQ)
- BA (UQ)
Newest selected publications
Thomas, PD. (2025) 'Against Ion's chain: Translatability in Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks', inUniversality and Translation: Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics. pp. 221 - 247.
Thomas, P. (2024) '"Prefazione" (preface to Gianni Fresu, Questioni gramsciani. Dall’interpretazione alla trasformazione del mondo, Milan: Meltemi, 2024)', inQuestioni gramsciani. Dall’interpretazione alla trasformazione del mondo. Milan : Meltemi. pp. 4 - 8. ISBN 13: 9791256150250.
Thomas, PD. (2023) 'Radical Politics: On the Causes of Contemporary Emancipation'. New York: Oxford University Press. ISSN 10: 0197528074 ISSN 13: 9780197528075
Thomas, PD. (2023) 'Recovering Subalternity in the Humanities and Social Sciences', in Fassin, D. and Steinmetz, G. (eds.) The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass. Studies in the Production of Knowledge. Durham : Duke University Press. pp. 310 - 327. ISBN 13: 978-1-4780-1945-9.
Thomas, P. (2022) 'Las revoluciones de Gramsci: pasiva y permanente', in Modonesi, M. (ed.) La revolución pasiva. Una antología de estudios gramscianos. Manresa : Bellaterra. pp. 281 - 316. ISBN 13: 978-84-19160-13-3.