Helena Rosenblatt
Historian of ideas at CUNY's Graduate Center; author of The Lost History of Liberalism.
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- Helena Rosenblatt is a Swedish historian of political thought and a Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
- Her best-known book, The Lost History of Liberalism (2018), traces the word and the idea from ancient Rome to the present; Foreign Affairs named it a best book of 2018 and it has been translated into nine languages.
- Her earlier books are on Rousseau and Benjamin Constant.
Key facts
- Current role
- Distinguished Professor of History, Graduate Center, CUNY, with chairs in French, Political Science, and Biography and Memoir1
- Books
- Rousseau and Geneva (1997); Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion (2008); The Lost History of Liberalism (2018)1
- Edited
- The Cambridge Companion to Constant (2009); French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day (2012, with Raf Geenens); Thinking with Rousseau (2017, with Paul Schweigert)1
- Awards
- Prix Benjamin Constant (2010); Guggenheim Fellowship (2019)1
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