Forthcoming 

James Alexander, ‘The Cambridge School, c. 1878 to 1975’, History of Political Thought (forthcoming 2015) ARTICLE

James Alexander, ‘A Systematic Theory of Tradition’, Journal of the Philosophy of Ideas (forthcoming) ARTICLE

James Alexander, ‘Who was the First Philosopher?’, Think (forthcoming) ARTICLE

James Alexander, ‘Socialism’, in Shaw in Context ed. Brad Kent (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2014). CHAPTER

James Alexander, ‘The History of Political Philosophy’, in The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy ed. Andrew Fiala (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2014 or 2015). CHAPTER

 

Published

2014 

James Alexander, ‘Notes Towards a Definition of Politics, Philosophy 89 (2014), pp. 273-300 ARTICLE

James Alexander, ‘Imitatio Pilati et Christi in Modern Historical Drama’, in The Bible and the Arts ed. Stephen Prickett (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). CHAPTER

 

2013 

James Alexander, ‘The Contradictions of Conservatism’, Government and Opposition 48.4 (2013), pp. 594-616. ARTICLE

 

2012

James Alexander, Review of Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel, Shaw, Synge, Connolly and Socialist Provocation in Modern Drama 55.3 (Fall 2012), pp. 422-24. REVIEW

James Alexander, Review of Stefan Collini, What Are Universities For? in British Journal of Educational Studies 60 (2012) pp. 450-1. REVIEW

James Alexander, ‘Oakeshott as Philosopher’, The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott ed. Efraim Podoksik (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 9-41. CHAPTER

James Alexander, ‘The Atheistic Metaphysics of Cosmopolitanism’, in Cosmopolitanism and Philosophy in a Cosmopolitan Sense (Proceedings of the International Workshop organized at New Europe College, Bucharest on 21-22 October, 2011) ed. Aron Telegdi-Csetri and Viorela Ducu (Bucharest: New Europe College, 2012), pp. 32-47. CHAPTER

James Alexander, ‘Three Rival Views of Tradition (Arendt, Oakeshott, MacIntyre)’, Journal of the Philosophy of History 6 (Spring 2012), pp. 20-43. ARTICLE

James Alexander, ‘The Four Points of the Compass’, Philosophy 87 (Jan 2012), pp. 79-107. ARTICLE

 

2011 

James Alexander, Review of Derek Parfit, On What Matters (2011) in Philosophy Now 87 (Nov/Dec 2011), pp. 42-3. REVIEW

James Alexander, ‘Oakeshott on Hegel’s Injudicious Use of the Word “State”’, History of Political Thought 32 (Spring 2011), pp. 147-76. ARTICLE

 

2010 

‘Subjectivity, Civility, Ecclesiasticality’ in Robert Crowcroft, S.J.D. Green, Richard Whiting eds. Philosophy, Politics and Religion in British Democracy (International Library of Political Studies Vol. 32) (London: I.B. Tauris, 2010) £52.50 CHAPTER

 

2009 

James Alexander, ‘Shredded Bliss’ [an editorial on the guitar], Times Higher Education, 7 May 2009, pp. 43-44. REVIEW

James Alexander, Shaw’s Controversial Socialism (Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2009), xvii & 293 pp., was published in August 2009. BOOK

James Alexander, Frederick Bulmer: A Life (London: Cooke and Bulmer, 2009), 511 pp., was published in August 2009. BOOK

 

2008 

James Alexander, Review of Robert Faulkner, The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics, Times Higher Education, 20 March 2008, pp. 48-9. REVIEW

 

2005 

James Alexander, Review of Michael Oakeshott, What is History and Other Essays in Times Higher Education, 8 April 2005, p. 27. REVIEW

 

2004 

James Alexander, ‘An Essay on Historical, Philosophical and Theological Attitudes to Modern Political Thought’, History of Political Thought 25 (Spring 2004), pp. 116-148. ARTICLE