Nathaniel Boyd received his PhD in politics and history from Brunel University London, focusing on the political thought of G.W.F. Hegel and the concept of the estates in his early writings. Specialising in the early modern and modern European history of political thought and conceptual history, he has publications in these fields, most recently in History of Political Thought and Hobbes Studies. Currently, he is working on a monograph on Hegel’s early political theory and its relationship to the German constitutional tradition for the ESHPT series History of European Political and Constitutional Thought.
contact: nathaniel.j.boyd@gmail.com
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EDUCATION
2011 – 2015 PhD (philosophy) Department of Politics,
History and the Brunel Law School, Supervisor: Dr. Peter D. Thomas Dissertation title: Hegel’s Concept of the Estates Brunel University London UK
2007 – 2009 M.A. (research) Department of Cultural Analysis
Dissertation title: The Ethics of the Anti-Postmodern University of Amsterdam NL
2002 – 2006 B.A. (honours) Department of Cultural Studies
Trent University CA
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2017 Intern
Flemish Parliament Brussels BE
2015 – 2016 Research Fellow
Research Centre for Classical German Philosophy / Hegel Archive, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum DE
2014 Research Fellow
Humboldt University / Archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), Berlin DE
2009 – 2011 Research Fellow
Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht NL
PUBLICATIONS
2019 ‘Hegel’s Hobbes: From the Historical Context of the
Constitution to Conscience and Consciousness’, History of Political Thought (forthcoming 2019)
‘The Reception of Hobbes in Germany and the Holy Roman Empire: Pufendorf, Thomasius, Hegel’, Hobbes Studies 32:1 (forthcoming Spring 2019)
‘Sittlichkeit and Modernity’, Hegel Jahrbuch (forthcoming April 2019)
2015 ‘Hegel’s Concept of the Estates’, Brunel University Research
Archive (BURA)
2012 The Autonomy of the Political: Concept, Theory, Form co-
edited and introduced with Dr. Michele Filippini, Jan van Eyck Academy publications, Maastricht NL
TRANSLATIONS (selection)
2017 Michael R. Krätke, ‘Marx and World History’, International
Review of Social History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK
2016 Étienne Balibar and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘An
Interview on Subalternity’, Cultural Studies 30, 5: 856–71
LANGUAGES
Dutch C2 English Native French Working knowledge German C1
