Isaac Nakhimovsky
Fields of interest: Intellectual history of Europe since the 17th century; history of political thought; historiography of international law and political economy
Bio
Isaac Nakhimovsky is Associate Professor of History and Humanities. He is the author of The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte (Princeton, 2011), and has also collaborated on an edition of Fichte’s Addresses to the German Nation (Hackett, 2013) as well as two volumes of essays on eighteenth-century political thought and its post-revolutionary legacies: Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2017), and Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought (Harvard, 2018). In June 2022 he delivered the Quentin Skinner Lecture at the University of Cambridge, and his next book, Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2024.
Selected other publications:
“Georg Lukács and Revolutionary Realpolitik, 1918–19: An Essay on Ethical Action, Historical Judgment, and the History of Political Thought,” Journal of the History of Ideas 83, no. 1 (2022): 63-85.